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Sites and tools like this simply encourage lounge operators, vendors and airports to add captive portals or SMS verification and make getting access to wifi har
by dfcowell 8y ago
Sites and tools like this simply encourage lounge operators, vendors and airports to add captive portals or SMS verification and make getting access to wifi harder.
- izacus 8y agoWhy? Why would an airport make connecting to the free WiFi they offer harder?
- jpatokal 8y agoLounges often have wifi meant for guests only, and the bandwidth can't cope with everybody in the airport using it.
- peteretep 8y agoThe WiFi isn't offered by the airports, it's offered by private lounges and restaurants, who offer it as a perk to their paying customers.
- danilocesar 8y agoWell, in europe most airports have free wifi with no restrictions. They are usually offered by the Airport administration company. In my home country, almost all airports administration companies offers time-restricted-but-free-wifi too.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI've travelled all over Europe and Asia and I don't think I've ever come across an airport without at least half decent, free, open wifi. Is this predominantly a US thing?
- zerkten 8y agoYes. It's not limited to airports. There are many reason why a hotspot provider in the US wouldn't want the liability of anyone other than a know user accessing their service. These issues are probably more limited elsewhere in the world, although it's probably the case that they are just lagging in coming up with better security practices/policy. Some home internet providers in the US like Comcast have a public WiFi service, but you have to authenticate to use it.
- peteretep 8y agoI am glad to hear that! However, the quick scan I did here of Thai and British airports showed almost every wifi point on _this list_ is a private one.
- maym86 8y agoI doubt they'll find out and even if they do I doubt they'll go to the effort and expense given the how few people will likely use a site like this vs the numbers of people traveling through an airport. Even if they all do add some other security then it's just like going back to a time before this site so no great loss. The alternative is to not share the passwords on this site which is effectively the same to anyone trying to get on the wifi for free.
- sneak 8y agoI don’t think these sorts of lists are in widespread enough use to affect the AP operators one bit. This is just handwringing.
- always_good 8y agoThat you can abuse something only because other people don't is pretty weak justification.