
Even on https urls, he could see the website the person was visiting by viewing the cookies it placed, although the actual traffic was otherwise encrypted.

I've watched a security expert do a man-in-the-middle attack at a coffee shop and it was spooky how much he could see of what someone was doing on unencrypted websites.

When I use ANY public wi-fi access, I always use a VPN client (paid for) that encrypts all my data and makes my IP address appear to be elsewhere. I know you said you didn't want a torrent (probably because Blizzard is watching them and does send DMCA notices about the clients).īut if you use a VPN service that encrypts your data and makes your IP address appear somewhere else, then Blizzard and your ISP cannot see what you were downloading.

Mega downloads are useless for anything over 5 gb unless you have an account.
