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Marriott to Pay $600K to Resolve WiFi-Blocking Investigation
- cnst 12y agoVia http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Marriott-Blocked-Hotspots-So-Users-Would-Use-Their-Pricey-WiFi-130745 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Marriott-Blocked-Hotspots.... Also, Marriott's response at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marriott-internationals-statement-on-fcc-ruling-278050441.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marriott-internation... and http://news.marriott.com/2014/10/marriott-internationals-statement-on-fcc-ruling.html http://news.marriott.com/2014/10/marriott-internationals-sta.... In summary, this was specific to one single property in Nashville, Tennessee; however, the ruling appears to be specifically against Marriott (it's unclear whether it applies to all the franchise locations, though). They were basically sending de-auth packets for any foreign hotspots; something that's very easy to do; you can send these http://bxr.su/o/net80211/ieee80211.h#IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_DEAUTH http://bxr.su/o/net80211/ieee80211.h#IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_D... via OpenBSD's hostapd (see http://mdoc.su/o/hostapd.conf.5 http://mdoc.su/o/hostapd.conf.5). There's even a way to cycle through all the channels from 1 to 14 (`hopper` keyword), sending these `deauth` packets to everyone; I've tried it as a test years ago --- it works (I think Reyk had a talk about it years back, which was what spiked my interest back then). Allegedly, as per DSLR, some such `deauth` feature was available as an option in some Cisco equipment (which, allegedly, has since been removed from newer versions of said equipment).