The Reader

Whoopee! They make is sound like this is new and unusual. My Windows
laptop running Boingo will also auto-join a network that it knows. So
will lots of WiFi enabled devices. I haven't tried spoofing a known
spot by renaming my WiFi system, but I imagine that it will do the same
thing, just join. This is kind of a known WiFi "gotcha" and why you
should be careful when using a "foreign" WiFi hotspot. I hope the
spoofer enjoys looking at pages of robotics toys and my LinkedIn page.

This is very old news:

http://threatcenter.smobilesystems.com/?p=1588

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9008399/Don_t_fall_victim_to_the_Free_Wi_Fi_scam

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1728634.ece

Heck, even Wikipedia has an article on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi

It must be a slow news week at C|Net - Just another re-regurgitated
FUD story to pull in readers...

YMMV,
DLC

renegade600 wrote:
>
>
> found the following article how others can pretend to be an at&t hotspot.
>
> "A security researcher has discovered that any wireless network can
> pretend to be an AT&T Wi-Fi hot spot and thus lure unsuspecting iPhone
> users to an untrusted network connection."
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20003455-245.html?tag=mncol
> <http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20003455-245.html?tag=mncol>
>
>

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