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Why do you even need his box? Just point the antennae at the Starbucks or library, change your MAC first. OT: with the proliferation of xfinitywifi, I have jo

by biturd 11y ago

Why do you even need his box? Just point the antennae at the Starbucks or library, change your MAC first. OT: with the proliferation of xfinitywifi, I have joined at my home when the internet was down on one channel but the xfinitywifi worked. Now I notice when I am out and about, I auto join any wifi named xfinitywifi. Is it now that simple? With most having joined Xfinitywifi at some time, I can just buy a cheap router, give the SSID xfinitywifi, and people will auto join and I can middle them all day long?

timboslice 11y ago
It is now that simple. Some more examples: "Linksys" "Netgear64" "Free Public Wifi"
- tomswartz07 11y ago
  The WiFi Pineapple[1] is a device that will even listen to devices looking for public networks like this and rebroadcast those SSIDs; a feature called PineAP.[2] [1] https://www.wifipineapple.com/ https://www.wifipineapple.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Igim3upL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Igim3upL0
  - lucaspiller 11y ago
    Kind of disappointed this isn't a wifi hotspot disguised as a pineapple...
    - tomswartz07 11y ago
      Ha, yeah. Their website isn't very good at explaining things, but the device got its name because they originally did, in fact, hide it inside of a pineapple. I think it was a plastic pineapple, but hey...
  - biturd 11y ago
    Absolutely amazed that Starbucks and the rest are not using some kind of auth. I've noticed a few Starbucks now that have an SSID of google-Starbucks or something similar. Anyone know if google at least does a better job. Some form of AUTH? On OS X I can push ALL data through a VPN. Trouble is, it's based on a hostname. I put in anything from /* ( wild cards galore ), http://* http://*, plus the SSL version and any other combination. I, as well as many others, assuming Apple doesn't delete the thread from their support forums, have been trying to resolve this without running a separate dedicate VPN app that may or may not support auto-scanning type connections that tend to drop off and re-enable For now, 8+ years has never gotten VPN on demand triggered by a call to a hotname as the trigger. Calls from browser, shell, even higher level tools like dig, telnet, etc, do not instant AUTH a VPN connection. It has to be done manually. If I could feel safe, a setting of, "any packet start of packet egress will stall the connection until VPN is up so zero Dara goes over a non VPN line. A VPZn should get around Sprint's idiocy in throttling video to 600k meaning once you add in audio, 320 is probably the best resolution you will be getting. With a VPN they should not be able to detect the traffic. I'm thinking VPN with all love pointed to a log server remotely stored and that nukes logs pretty quick or send logs to /dev/null but that may make debugging hard. Edit: tons of spelling, grammar, and additions for clarity—mobile is really a terrible platform for typing ore than what you push to trigger. :)

by biturd 11y ago

timboslice 11y ago

It is now that simple. Some more examples: "Linksys" "Netgear64" "Free Public Wifi"

tomswartz07 11y ago
The WiFi Pineapple[1] is a device that will even listen to devices looking for public networks like this and rebroadcast those SSIDs; a feature called PineAP.[2] [1] https://www.wifipineapple.com/ https://www.wifipineapple.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Igim3upL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Igim3upL0
- lucaspiller 11y ago
  Kind of disappointed this isn't a wifi hotspot disguised as a pineapple...
  - tomswartz07 11y ago
    Ha, yeah. Their website isn't very good at explaining things, but the device got its name because they originally did, in fact, hide it inside of a pineapple. I think it was a plastic pineapple, but hey...
- biturd 11y ago
  Absolutely amazed that Starbucks and the rest are not using some kind of auth. I've noticed a few Starbucks now that have an SSID of google-Starbucks or something similar. Anyone know if google at least does a better job. Some form of AUTH? On OS X I can push ALL data through a VPN. Trouble is, it's based on a hostname. I put in anything from /* ( wild cards galore ), http://* http://*, plus the SSL version and any other combination. I, as well as many others, assuming Apple doesn't delete the thread from their support forums, have been trying to resolve this without running a separate dedicate VPN app that may or may not support auto-scanning type connections that tend to drop off and re-enable For now, 8+ years has never gotten VPN on demand triggered by a call to a hotname as the trigger. Calls from browser, shell, even higher level tools like dig, telnet, etc, do not instant AUTH a VPN connection. It has to be done manually. If I could feel safe, a setting of, "any packet start of packet egress will stall the connection until VPN is up so zero Dara goes over a non VPN line. A VPZn should get around Sprint's idiocy in throttling video to 600k meaning once you add in audio, 320 is probably the best resolution you will be getting. With a VPN they should not be able to detect the traffic. I'm thinking VPN with all love pointed to a log server remotely stored and that nukes logs pretty quick or send logs to /dev/null but that may make debugging hard. Edit: tons of spelling, grammar, and additions for clarity—mobile is really a terrible platform for typing ore than what you push to trigger. :)