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Hotel WiFi unsecured computer-computer networks

J

j/k/Andy

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Jun 5, 2007
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As I sit in my hotel room, are these WiFi unsecured computer-computer networks that show up just trying to intercept my internet communications and all the valuable :rolleyes: data I'm sending?

My hotel has I assume legitimate networks, but these guys are trying to scam me with networks named: Free Public WiFi and Free Internet Access?
 
r.j.s

r.j.s

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Mar 7, 2007
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Short answer, yes. They hope that someone connects to them, and when they are trying to figure out why Teh Internets™ aren't working they are stealing files off the computer.
 
JNB

JNB

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Oct 7, 2004
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In a Hell predominately of my own making
I spend about 120-150 days a year in hotels, and the hotel-provided network is always pretty obvious (and reliably safe, if depressingly slow), Ibahn is one of the more common ones. Any peer-to-peer network, though, should be avoided like the plague.
 
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