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There are occasionally times when I want to suffer a MITM attack. For example, when I am on an airplane, at a hotel, or basically any other time I have to fill
by afarrell 11y ago
There are occasionally times when I want to suffer a MITM attack. For example, when I am on an airplane, at a hotel, or basically any other time I have to fill out a webform to get online. Perhaps those forms should not exist, but until they don't, I hope http://xkcd.com http://xkcd.com continues to work.
- schoen 11y agoGoogle has a service for this: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/network-portal-detection https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
- nandhp 11y agoTo clarify, you don't want to suffer an MITM attack; that's just the current standard way of finding the captive portal login page. I believe the Wi-Fi Alliance is working on Hotspot 2.0 (Passpoint) to fix this problem: http://www.theruckusroom.net/2014/10/hotspots-get-hotter-with-release-2-of-hotspot-20.html http://www.theruckusroom.net/2014/10/hotspots-get-hotter-wit... Briefly, it looks like there's a secure (WPA2) hotspot for internet access and an associated open hotspot if you need to sign up for an account (with a published signup URL).