"Free Public WiFi" at 32, 000 feet over the Pacific.

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2008/12/2 David Kovar <dkovar at gmail.com>:
> Greetings,
>
> So there I am, at 32K feet in the business class section of a United
> flight. I pull out my MBP, fire it up, and find that I can connect to
> a "Free Public Wifi" access point.
>
> Not likely.
>
> I could probably track the owner down, but I'd look really obvious
> doing so. Can anyone think of a way of connecting to the access point
> and communicating with the owner? A pop up dialog box would be nice,
> but injecting something in their log file would suffice.

First off, make sure your firewall is up and hope you are fully patched.

Connect, get an IP then nmap/nessus scan, see what OS, what is open
then take it from there.


> -David
>
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