[izacus]

More importantly, it's widely deployed by HNers in US to snoop though everything you do on your phone, tablet and computer if you dare to use their wifi.

The ops topics are full of people claiming how critically important it is for them to sniff through everything you do on "their" network for security.

You don't need to go to Russia, China or India to have your privacy violated. Just go to work.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Your privacy isn't violated if you avail yourself of someone else's property.

[b112]

Violation and legality are two entirely different things.

[taneq]

Depends whether you were aware of the consequences of accessing that property. If you walk through my front gate and I pants you, take photos of your junk and upload them, you'll probably be upset unless I had a sign on the gate saying (in clear language, not 14 pages of irrelevant 6pt legalese hiding a link to the actual 'privacy policy' document which admits in obfuscated language that pantsing is an option) that this would happen.

[0xedd]

No. When all "gates" in a domain have this sign, it isn't less upsetting.

[izacus]

The networks of ISPs you're "availing yourself to" are their property.