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if you have wi-fi enabled on your IPhone while you’re out and about, a hacker can grab your info?

Nope:

Apple has already patched the ‘KRACK’ WPA2 Wi-Fi security flaw iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS betas
Monday, October 16, 2017 · 6:01 pm
“Apple has already patched the WPA2 Wi-Fi KRACK exploit announced today in iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS betas, reports Rene Ritchie [via Twitter],” iClarified reports.
“Discovered by security researcher Mathy Vanhoef,” iClarified reports, “the method of using key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs) allow attackers to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted and steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos, and so on.”
iClarified reports, “You can learn more about the KRACK exploit by clicking here.”

Apple has confirmed to me that #wpa2 #KRACK exploit has already been patched in iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS betas.
Deeper dive to follow.
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) October 16, 2017

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: This is mainly an Android problem because Android is a stolen product that was initially supposed to be a BlackBerry knockoff which, after Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone, was hastily cobbled-together to mimic Apple’s revolutionary and patented Multi-Touch™ device. This hasty corner-cutting resulted in something that was and remains so poorly implemented that even the simple act of delivering software updates is in many cases never achieved leaving those who ignorantly settle for Android dreck vulnerable to myriad and unending security lapses and privacy intrusions.

> MacDailyNews Take: This is mainly an Android problem because Android is a stolen product that was initially supposed to be a BlackBerry knockoff which, after Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone, was hastily cobbled-together to mimic Apple’s revolutionary and patented Multi-Touch™ device. This hasty corner-cutting resulted in something that was and remains so poorly implemented that even the simple act of delivering software updates is in many cases never achieved leaving those who ignorantly settle for Android dreck vulnerable to myriad and unending security lapses and privacy intrusions.

Wow.

Well, tell MacDailyNews that for me, it's an Apple problem, because my wonderful, dependable, functional, reliable, incredibly useful, need-it-every-day Apple iPhone 5c likely won't get the iOS patch necessary to address this vulnerability, because it just went out of security update support.

I don't want a new phone. My phone works just fine, and shows every indication of continuing to work fine for years to come.

Except that it's now out of support, and I can't get a patch for this security issue.

So, no, MacDailyNews, this is not just an Android problem, at least not for me.