PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Finding free wi-fi
View Single Post
Old 11th Feb 2008, 11:10
  #13 (permalink)  
Andy Rylance
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: London
Age: 55
Posts: 54
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
You just don't want to do this anyway.

Who wants to send stuff between wifi networks and your laptop that you don't know about?

Here is true story:

Checked in at hotel to find a wifi site purporting to be from the hotel and looking all like the hotel "wifi service". Wanted credit card details to access wifi. In fact it was not, it was a hoax site designed to extract credit card info from hotel guests.

If you use free wifi without encryption you might as well write down all your passwords on a piece of paper and chuck em out the window.
Andy Rylance is offline