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AT&T seems to really not care about their customers trusting them.
by jeo1234 11y ago
AT&T seems to really not care about their customers trusting them.
- urda 11y agoDon't connect to open Wifi hotspots willy nilly then. Is AT&T taking advantage of the situation? Absolutely, but this is what happens when you connect to any WiFi network you find while on the road. Today it's AT&T, tomorrow it'll be someone else.
- Someone1234 11y agoAnd let's be frank, these networks are so insecure anyway even if you can connect you likely shouldn't be using it for anything you care about anyway (and certainly nothing that isn't HTTPS). But even websites which support HTTPS won't mark cookies secure, so the browser will happily upload it to the HTTP version for the world to see. Ultimately open WiFi hotspots are a security nightmare, it is quite incredible that nothing has been done about it. There's no reason we couldn't utilise something akin to SSL to secure the WiFi connection itself (since the scenario is identical, two previously unknown parties wanting to communicate securely, and utilising an already trusted CA to facilitate that). I guess as an industry we're just too lazy to make anything except PSK work.
- r00fus 11y agoStaying off promiscuous mode is one thing, but all AT&T hotspots appear with the same SSID - if you rely on a single one you'll get all of them. Weak Wifi signal is also a killer - you're using maps and driving near a Starbucks? Data crawls to a halt as your phone tries to connect to a wifi point 30+m away. Eventually I just gave up on them.