Quote Originally Posted by dclamp View Post
I am not sure if you watch HAK5 on YouTube. Its a technology vlog / security hacking group. They have several episodes on man in the middle attacks using their "Wifi Pineapple" which is an Open hotspot with a generic name such as "Free Wifi" or "CoffeeShopName Wifi" so it looks legitimate, but its not. From there they are able to either record connected people's traffic or actively watch it. It is really interesting and informative.

I also read about a large scale man in the middle attack that actually occurred at a computer security conference. The person who hosted the attack later used the stats he collected in his presentation at that same conference later.
I wonder if anyone from Microsoft reads these forums. They are missing a feature in their .net library that makes this problem worse. Application developers using .net don't have an easy method to use to determine if a connection is established over an open network or over an encrypted network. There are lower level ways to get this information, but it should really be accessible through .net given the widespread scale of the problem.