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plope0726,

thanks again for all this. it looks like i win the argument with my friend.

you're telling me if someone hacks an email account in a public wifi setting that they will be arrested if they go under for more than 30 mins? i find that hard to believe. the person getting hacked would at least need to contact authorities first, etc. i'm guessing authorities would come into place...

haha. for the sake of this argument, let's say it's not a government official or anyone in a position of "power". let's make this example be a normal person and their personal email account. nothing work related, government, secret and important documents, etc.

plope0726, thanks for the follow up. i don't understand what koolpop0 meant by attacking. first off, i can't imagine any law enforcement would approach a person or area they think is breaking into email accounts UNLESS they have been targeting someone for a long period of time, know specifically of ...

what exactly do you mean by "attack you"? attack your computer? or physically come to where you are located?

Thanks for the reply but your answer didn't really clear anything up for me. Unless someone can explain otherwise, how can a computer be traced after it leaves said public wifi network that was used to log into another email account? What if said computer is only used in public wifi spots? If materi...

my friend and I are having an ongoing debate. please settle it for good. my friend concurs it is completely safe to hack an email account (yahoo, hotmail, etc) if you do so in a public wifi setting (like a coffee shop, library, etc). his point is that your ip address is public, and therefore your ac...