free public wifi

[HaxorNubcake]

I was pleasantly surprised to see free public wifi at the airport when I opened up the laptop.

I'm pretty sure that this is relatively new...wasn't here a few months ago!

Am I at risk of any specific risk of malicious attacks while on this network? And what can I do to prevent it.

 

[swtethan]

all airports have free wifi i think

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Sky Harbor has had free wifi for at least a year now. And yeah, isn't it awsome.

 

[erub]

that's pretty cool, when I was there this summer a starbucks had it but that's it. maybe they are trying to compete with the free wifi in Vegas? There is also free wifi in Tucson. So far College Station, TX and Cedar Rapids, IA I've used it in these..

 

[HaxorNubcake]

Originally posted by: swtethan
all airports have free wifi i think

nope. definitely not...quite a large number of them require you to pay

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: swtethan
all airports have free wifi i think

definitely wrong. most of them want $7 for 24 hrs worth of access..ORD, ATL, DFW, DAL, IAH, SAN, ELP come to mind

 

[HaxorNubcake]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Sky Harbor has had free wifi for at least a year now. And yeah, isn't it awsome.

weird. It wasn't available in certain areas not too long ago. Anyways, yeah it is awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm missing the game tonight because US Airways f*cked up my reservation and put me on this later flight. Oh well.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: swtethan
all airports have free wifi i think

Nope, incorrect. Many have wifi where you can look at the site for the airport and PAY for access. Even then its limited to just web stuff.

edit: D'oh! Beat twice... 🙁

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: HaxorNubcake

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Sky Harbor has had free wifi for at least a year now. And yeah, isn't it awsome.

weird. It wasn't available in certain areas not too long ago. Anyways, yeah it is awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm missing the game tonight because US Airways f*cked up my reservation and put me on this later flight. Oh well.

At least you are leaving on the same day. United screwed up my flight into Tucson a couple weeks ago and I had to sleep at LAX.

 

[MSCoder610]

This seems like a good time to say, "beware" 😛

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1420202

DeadlyBattleRobot writes in with a story from Computerworld about a rather simple scam that has been observed in the wild in several US airports. Bad guys set up a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network and name it "Free Wi-Fi." You join it and, if you have file sharing enabled, your computer becomes a zombie. The perp has set up Internet sharing so you actually get the connectivity you expected, and you are none the wiser.