"The good news is that an attacker would need to know (or crack) the SSID password in order to access the router in the first place. Provided you’re using a strong password for your own Wi-Fi router and you don’t hand out the password to it too casually, then you don’t have anything to worry about while at home.

The far bigger risk is when using public Wi-Fi hotspots, whose passwords are of course made available to all users. Since most of these will be vulnerable to the attack, all of your own traffic is potentially at risk. It’s always a good idea to use a VPN when accessing public Wi-Fi, and this is now more important than ever before."

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"The good news is that an attacker would need to know (or crack) the SSID password in order to access the router in the first place. Provided you’re using a strong password for your own Wi-Fi router and you don’t hand out the password to it too casually, then you don’t have anything to worry about while at home.

The far bigger risk is when using public Wi-Fi hotspots, whose passwords are of course made available to all users. Since most of these will be vulnerable to the attack, all of your own traffic is potentially at risk. It’s always a good idea to use a VPN when accessing public Wi-Fi, and this is now more important than ever before."