[176749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Thu Dec 11 09:38:03 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:34:46 -0500
From: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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It's very scary, and something I'm doing a paper on. It _is_ just MAC
recognition, at least until you try and use a MAC address that's already
active somewhere else.
Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
ZCorum
(678) 507-5000
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:24 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> 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....
>
