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    10 months ago

    that was done because when wifi encryption wasn’t enabled by default, most people had no clue how to turn it on. so now it’s the norm to enable encryption and supply the default credentials (which you should still change) to connect. this is why there’s hardly any ‘open’ wifi to ‘borrow’ anymore.