Public Wi-Fi means opening yourself up to some risk — airports, hotels, planes, anywhere you don't control the network. Jim uses the August 2026 Delta Flight 591 Wi-Fi incident as the jumping-off point: a rogue network showed up mid-flight mimicking the official service, and the crew shut the whole system down. Jim breaks down what actually happened, why "rogue" isn't even the right term for most of what people call rogue networks, and how an evil twin / deauth attack works in the first place.
More importantly: this was completely preventable, and the fix already exists. Jim walks through 802.11w (Protected Management Frames), why it stops deauth attacks cold, and why OWE (Opportunistic Wireless Encryption) — encryption without authentication — would have shut this whole thing down before it started.
Also covered: why "I had my VPN on" doesn't always mean what you think it means (a real story from Black Hat about split-tunnel VPNs betraying someone who thought they were covered), and three practical things to do before you connect to Wi-Fi anywhere you don't control it.
Intro music by Alex Grohl, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsRWpx8VJ_E and https://pixabay.com/users/alexgrohl-25289918/
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