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 ====================== [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] "If you do buy a computer, don't turn it on." - Richards' 2nd Law ============= for back issues: [Base URL] site http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/ CISSP refs: [Base URL]mnbksccd.htm Security Dict.: [Base URL]secgloss.htm Book reviews: [Base URL]mnbk.htm [Base URL]review.htm Partial/recent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techbooks/ Review mailing list: send mail to [email protected] http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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.
