Re: Free Public WiFi

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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

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