Free Public WiFi

[Robert Slade <rmslade () shaw ca>]

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.

However, I suppose this *must* be a pretty old story, since, now that I think of it, I haven't being seeing as much of 
"Free Public Wifi" these days.  (And, I suppose, if I forget to turn off wireless some time in a hotel or classroom 
when I'm wired in, I'll be spreading YVR_PUBLIC ...)

Story on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130451369

Listen to NPR interview (I'm not keen on them calling it a virus, even if that gets somewhat cleared up):
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=130451369&m=130458685

transcript of interview:
 http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130451369



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