[176746] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Dec 11 09:27:21 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:11:07 -0500."
 <7585057.2707.1418274667707.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:24:10 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

--==_Exmh_1418307850_2382P
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:11:07 -0500, Jay Ashworth said:
> I will give them their props: I only had to sign in *once*, last year;
> their auth controller has recognized my MAC address at every spot I've
> used since.

Actually, that's sort of scary if you think about it too hard.  Shared-secret
authentication has its flaws, but it still beats shared-nonsecret auth.

I really hope it's something on your laptop other than the mac address....

--==_Exmh_1418307850_2382P
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1
Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001
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=elCe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--==_Exmh_1418307850_2382P--

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post