If you use someones wireless internet connection,can they get your email passwords and other information?

Network engineers and other technology experts have closely scrutinized wireless network security because of the open-air nature of wireless communications.


The practice of wardriving, for example, exposed the vulnerabilities of home WLANs and accelerated the pace of security technology advances in home wireless equipment.


Overall, conventional wisdom holds that wireless networks are now "secure enough" to use in the vast majority of homes, and many businesses. Security features like 128-bit WEP and WPA can scramble or "encrypt" network traffic so that its contents can not easily be deciphered by snoopers. Likewise, wireless routers and access points (APs) incorporate access control features such as MAC address filtering that deny network requests from unwanted clients.





Obviously every home or business must determine for themselves the level of risk they are comfortable in taking when implementing a wireless network. The better a wireless network is administered, the more secure it becomes. However, the only truly secure network is the one never built!

If you use someones wireless internet connection,can they get your email passwords and other information?
If it's not encrypted (which I presume it isn't. or you wouldn't be able to use it without the key) and the sites you enter your password into aren't (http rather than https), then anyone sniffing traffic could get your info.