[Tfug] Fraudulent airport WiFi

[Adrian]

On Monday 03 July 2006 13:50, Harry McGregor wrote:
> Not to take away from the sinister aspects...
> 
> IIRC some versions of Windows will automatically setup an Ad-Hoc network 
> with the SSID of it's primary AP based network.  I could be wrong, but I 
> remember coming across it before.
> 
> If course the Mac ranges being out of spec is a little bit of a tip off...
> 

Yeah... it was also a bit of a tip-off as they were "new" access points... I 
have been thru this particular airport 3 times in the last month or so, each 
time waiting in the same area, so I knew what "should" be there. I was also 
going to say that the last MAC, FA:CC:1D:44:C5:1E, was not only unassigned, 
but also invalid as it was a group address, not a host address. But I caught 
my mistake right before sending. Apparently I have forgotten how to convert 
hex to bin and identify a LSb... even while using kCalc to do it for me.

Adrian