On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Robert Slade <[email protected]> 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.
