Can my landlord keylog his wifi to watch my tablet

[bionicleg]

My landlord lets me use my devices on his wifi in the house. I know he's trying to spy on me, can he put some sort of keylogger on the wireless? It is a very serious situation. Due to medical reasons, I have no choice but to do my medical, financial and personal business on my phone and tablet, as I cannot leave the house even to the grocery alone. Not bringing drama to the table here, just explaining that I have no choice but to use this guy's wifi. Also, are packets readable? As in, I'm guessing that he can track websites I go to. Can he open every page of each site I visit? I have no doubt that he has tech support via my ex (his brother) to do whatever necessary to make his pc capable of these things no matter the prices. And one last question, how about the apps on my tablet and phone, such as Messenger (the place is so small that this is my only.means of speaking with anyone without him listening to me on my phone). Can he gather info via wifi spying, of my apps? Thanks in advance for answers. Please no lectures on getting out of here: I'm a very recent above knee amputee I just had 2 recon surgeries on my stump and cannot move out until I get my prosthetic leg back!! It's all good, just a motorcycle deal including the little age old story of old man who doesn't see or hear the McCain, runs a stop sign, blah blah

 

[Louise Porkolt]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear this ... to the point:
It is certainly possible to SNIF the network you both are on ! (packet sniffers).
It is also possible to protect yourself from this. If your landlord knows about it and doesn't want you to use his wifi, he would simply change the password (WEP).

you could run a firewall and a good antivirus.
Keylogger is a smaller threat because he needs physical access to your PC to install the software or hardware, unless he's a pro in hacking !

mostly it depends on the OS you're running (Windows, Mac, IOS Linux etc... )

Good luck.
Cheers, Louise.

 

[bill001g]

Watching the wifi would be the hard way to do it but pretty much anyone that know the key can technically watch all the wifi traffic. It is much easier to just watch the traffic between the router and the internet or have the router itself intercept the traffic.

Your only solution for this is to encrypt all the traffic which in this case means using a vpn service. There are vpn clients for almost every platform. You want to avoid ones that are very cheap or are "free". These services too can monitor and collect your data. You can expect to pay 5-$10/month for a service you can trust.

 

[smorizio]

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[mcnumpty23]

if you are on the same network then yes its possible to remotely install a keylogger

or sidejack you to get access to websites you visit

plus a load of other things as well

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... 1) Try always using HTTPS in your Web use... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
2) Another method would be to use software or hardware based encryption on your devices.
3) Do you have a physical Phone line... use a DSL service with that line... Government LAWs will apply to any wire-tapping or hacking of this line.

 

[DeauteratedDog]

Yes - if he has access to the internet connection he can absolutely capture every packet and reconstruct the data stream - just like looking over your shoulder.

The best way to defeat this is to use a VPN - then he just sees an encrypted stream, all he can tell is that you are talking to a VPN server.

Next best is to always use https - you can use broswer plugins (like https everywhere) that will automatically use https on all sites that support it.