Just curious what the risk is of such a thing. Public wifi or even something like work wifi, which provides a connection for over 5,000 people on a large corporate campus. They provide everyone with the same wifi password and username. My job is mobile, so I'm always going from building to building, walking around doing stuff, etc. Here and there, I'll download a movie. I see that office workers and browsing the various internet sites, ordering various personal stuff, etc.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime phone. I use an app called Flud to download torrents. Before I do anything, I turn off my data settings for the phone and turn off my location tracking. I turn on the wifi and use that only for the download.
Obviously, on a corporate campus, they can't go around and look at everyone's phone. Does the cell phone company have a way to track your mac address or whatever and trace you to this if the settings are off?
Added (1). I don't download a crazy amount and I don't "share" any of them. Just one or two here and there. I'm more of grab-and-go. Flip it on at various times of the day to see how many connections there are and see if it works, download and then wifi off, location/data turned back on and app off.
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