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Re: Free Public WiFi
From: Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:04:10 -0400
I see it all the time, and always try and join it with my non-primary machine (if I am carrying it) just for fun. J On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
The real reason is a lot less interesting, it seems. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/10/free_public_wifi_does_not_exis.html On Oct 17, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca> wrote:OK, maybe this is way old news for a lot of you, but I'd never come across it. I've always seen "Free Public Wifi," of course, especially in airports. (In fact, I'm sitting in YVR right now. Oddly, I *don't* see "Free Public Wifi" right now, although someone is advertising "Drew's 17inch laptop.") I've never tried to connect to it, of course: I *do* know the difference between "Unsecured wireless network" and "Unsecured computer-to-computer network." I've always vaguely wondered if there were some great conspiracy of air travelling blackhats who were trying to sniff credentials in airport lounges and gate areas.Probably, yes. :-) - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list._______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- Free Public WiFi Robert Slade (Oct 17)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Paul Ferguson (Oct 17)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Paul M. Moriarty (Oct 18)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Joel Esler (Oct 18)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Paul M. Moriarty (Oct 18)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Shawn Merdinger (Oct 18)
- Re: Free Public WiFi Paul Ferguson (Oct 17)