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DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT log into web portals where financial or personal information is at risk using an anonymous/3rd party proxy. It is possible that an anonymous proxy is set up to record all traffic and to mine usernames and passwords for websites. Monitoring insecure authentication or cookies are just a few of many methods to achieve this. I have set up some rules which will help minimize the effect of this but it is still recommended to disable this proxy whenever handling such information. This is not a flaw of this software or wpad.dat but more the nature of an anonymous proxy.

Public Proxies and the Law
According to to U.S. law, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers) applies only when anyone who knowingly accesses a computer without authorization or has knowingly exceeds his authorized access on that computer. Because an opened proxy, by default, allows connections and use of the service by anyone in the WWW, its administrator has essentially authorized everyone to use the proxy. Therefore browsing the web, via anonymous proxies, is not illegal.