Hookey Wi-Fi - Luton Airport

superscaper

Conor wrote: »

You're a braver bloke than me.

Hence second part of my post. I'd only ever use my PDA which I don't use for accessing personal accounts etc anyway.

buglawton

Yeah, after reading gazzak's post with the Computerworld link it make you paranoid. Will have to tighten up lappy's settings so at least only will access "infrastructure" hotspots. Here's a funny thing though: If at home you previously set a folder to two to 'share' to get stuff onto & off of it, then as we know, anyone on the same hotspot can browse such folders. Why does windows (XP) make it so complicated to simply set up a shared folder but WITH A PASSWORD?

sleep2much

Conor wrote: »

I like people like sleep2much. They're the ones who think they're being clever downloading software off bittorrent and using open wifi without realising that it's a virtual guarantee they've been p0wned whether by getting user/passes from the wifi or rootkitting their computers. I love rootkits. It's like the ultimate vengeance on people like sleep2much because it's totally invisible to antispyware/virus software so they sit there in their ignorance thinking their PC is OK whilst all the time their broadband which they're complaining is slow is only slow because they're a part of a botnet or similar. They've provided me with a nice income over the years.

Yawn. I knew people would pounce :rotfl:

Coveredinbees!!!!

Surely it's a honey trap, a honey pot is something far ruder ????

You could get a WIFI connection in Orlando Airport last time I was there but that was 15 months ago

superscaper

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Surely it's a honey trap, a honey pot is something far ruder ????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29

Originiates from Winnie the Pooh. Hardly all that rude.

I think you mean it the other way around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(espionage)

Andy_L

Wow, 26 posts - see what happens when your away for a few days.

Personally I wouldn't use any public wi-fi (whether stolen or paid for) for anything banking related & I'd only use an internet cafe for credit card transactions - there's so many other ways of people cloning your cars anyway so I accept the risk.

Turning on pedant point scoring mode, which after all is what the internet is all about :-), it appears the people prosecuted for hijacking wifi where done under the Radio Communications Act not the CMA. Probably due to the poor drafting of the CMA

Lorian

Andy_L wrote: »

Personally I wouldn't use any public wi-fi (whether stolen or paid for) for anything banking related & I'd only use an internet cafe for credit card transactions - there's so many other ways of people cloning your cars anyway so I accept the risk.

If I have to do anything sensitive I create a VPN to my home router and do the transaction through the tunnel. I know most people's routers won't do this, but its well worth it if you are away a lot.

superscaper

Andy_L wrote: »

Probably due to the poor drafting of the CMA

I think it was because with the CMA they have to prove he'd accessed the computers, which is going to be difficult if all they're doing is accessing a router for internet access. In these piggbacking cases the Communication Act is easier to prosecute as it approaches the bandwidth aspect rather than the accessing of computers aspect.

buglawton

Next they'll want to do you for 'stealing electricity' :rotfl:

Conor_3

superscaper wrote: »

I think it was because with the CMA they have to prove he'd accessed the computers, which is going to be difficult if all they're doing is accessing a router for internet access.

A router is a computer. Many run Linux and on some, the Linux community have produced their own version to flash them with.
In addition to that, Vista will allow you to configure your wifi adapter as an access point and there's software available to do the same on XP. So just because it says it's an access point it doesn't mean it's a router or similar.