[Tfug] Fraudulent airport WiFi

Angus Scott-Fleming angussf at geoapps.com
Mon Jul 3 11:50:31 MST 2006


On 29 Jun 2006 at 11:56, Adrian wrote:

> Had to chuckle a bit yesterday as I was on travel and waiting in the airport 
> for the (late) plane. I fired up my laptop at this particular airport, which 
> I have been thru several times, to use a free WiFi access point I knew of to 
> grab my email and SSH back into some servers to get some work done while I 
> waited... Can you spot the fraudulent WiFi access point? I was quite amused 

OK, I give up, how did you spot it? Both the "tmobile" cells are 
Cisco gear and are "managed", so it's probably not them.  I didn't 
find a manufacturers cross-ref for the MAC addresses for the three 
"Ad-Hoc" units.  

> looking around trying to figure out who it was... The fraudulent access 
> disappeared a little while later as the planes started to board.


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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
http://www.geoapps.com/
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