are you suggesting that an insecure laptop connected to the owners mobile hotspot is somehow carrying the same level of risk as an insecure laptop connected to an untrusted wireless network Josheph ? ... come on lad.
Why is that so far-fetched? If your laptop is behind on security updates, a malicious website you visit could pwn you through a browser exploit, no matter how you have it connected to the Internet.
I don't think you understand Joseph, the attacks I'm mostley speaking too are happening on the Local network the WiFi, not outbound TLS connections, do you get this ?
Those ones are generally blocked by basic firewalls that have been enabled by default since Windows XP SP2, which is now over 21 years old. And devices running software older than that are in practice cut off from the Internet anyway, since pretty much every website these days has a minimum TLS version requirement of newer than the newest available back then. And my outbound example was meant to show how you would still be vulnerable even going through a mobile hotspot.
