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by tikkabhuna 424 days ago
But isn't that exactly the previous posters point? Free WiFI someone can just MITM your connection, you would never know and you think its encrypted. Its the worst possible outcome. At least when there's no encryption browsers can tell the user to be careful.
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They could still tell the user to be careful without authentication.

He wasn't proposing that encryption without authentication gets the full padlock and green text treatment.