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If you share your WiFi with the perpetrator, there is a potential that they could execute a so-called [[w:man-in-the-middle attack|man-in-the-middle attack]]. Because how most WiFi setups work, all the internet connections on single WiFi network flow thought a single device, which means that this device can see all the unencrypted traffic. This is something you need to be mindful of.
====DNS====
DNS is essentially internet's phonebook. It allows your computer to convert a website, such as {{SERVER}} to an [[w:IP address|IP address]] which the computer can actually use to deliver you the website. For various complicated historical reasons, this traffic has not been protected by encryption by default until very recently, and anyone who is on the network can observe you as you access websites. By doing this they can tell which website you access, but they cannot tell what you were doing on that particular website. So, in case of {{SITENAME}}, they would be able to tell you accessed {{SERVER}}, but not not that you looked up this particular page.
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If you use Chrome or Firefox, the solution to this is to make sure your browsers are up to date. Both have recently enabled their encrypted DNS by default, so this should kick in with an update. You can check if your DNS is encrypted by runnnig a test found [https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ on this page].
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