[176751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Peach)
Thu Dec 11 09:46:31 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:46:15 -0500
From: John Peach <john-nanog@peachfamily.net>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:37:22 -0500
Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com> wrote:
> It is, you only have to log in once and then it remembers your MAC
> address. Harvesting usable MAC addresses is as trivial as putting up
> an open access point with the SSIDs xfinitywifi and CableWifi and
> recording the MAC addresses that connect to it.
I was just pointing out that you don't even need to login with the
device. Cablevision allow you to register a MAC address on their
website.
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> Scott Helms
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> ZCorum
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:30 AM, John Peach
> <john-nanog@peachfamily.net> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:24:10 -0500
> > 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....
> >
> > It's not - Cablevision allow you to register devices via their
> > website.... by mac address.
> >
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