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I haven't seen an open wireless network for years around my residence. Is open Wifi still a thing?
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
I haven't seen an open wireless network for years around my residence. Is open Wifi still a thing?
- snazz 6y agoYes, especially in more densely populated places. I can pick up a few open networks from where I’m sitting in a moderately-populated American suburb.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIt can very well connect to those semi-public WiFi's that require payment or require to be a customer of that ISP (and every router from that ISP automatically broadcasts such a network in addition to the private one). This isn't something I've seen in the wild yet (beyond anecdotal evidence which I suspect is due to a misconfiguration), however it is a very valid concern especially considering most ISPs are in bed with the media/advertising industry and would directly benefit from allowing these TVs to connect to these networks and making a deal with the manufacturer to make them do so.
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoThat would have to either be done via the ISP gateway recognizing a MAC address or other stuff that is sniffable and potentially crackable (remember this is Samsung software we're talking about) by someone. I would assume by now if anything like that existed it'd be exploited to hell and back for a free Internet connection.