On 11 January 2012 18:54, Marshal Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is an issue I just recently became aware of. I did a little > research and was not able to discover much related to this. If it's > already been discussed, I'll apologize in advance. AT&T smartphones > will automatically connect to a ssid of attwifi. Several people have > verified this by simply setting a ssid of attwifi with no encryption. > We have seen iPhone 4, Android, and Blackberry devices from AT&T > connect this way. It was also reported that AT&T 3G iPad/iPad2 devices > do this as well. On the Motorola Atrix, the AT&T logo appear to > indicate you are connected to an AT&T hot spot. iPhone 3GS does not > appear to exhibit this behavior. > > At least some Android devices do have an option to disable this > behavior through the settings menu. Aside from disabling wifi, I > cannot find this option on iPhone or Blackberry. To be clear, this is > AT&T specific. A little Google searching revealed this from May 2011, > http://gobitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-recently-decided-to-conduct-little.html, > but not much else. Either this is not as much of an issue as I think > it might be or it has just been ignored. It would seem to fall into > the same category as using a ssid of linksys or Free Public WiFi. This > could be a little worse since at least some devices give you an > indication you are connecting to a real AT&T hotspot. Anyone have > thoughts about this? > > To make sure I give proper attribution, this was originally pointed > out to me by Mark Rupright. > > Marshal
I've not seen this but I'll make sure that I tell Bob to watch out for it as he runs Karma while travelling around at the end of the month. Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
