Re: "Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Frank Cox wrote: > A new wireless signal showed up on Network Manager on my Fedora 10 laptop > yesterday named "Free Public Wifi". You've fallen prey to the most widespread "SSID virus". It might not even have been intended as such, but it's spreading like one. As others have said, remove that SSI

Re: "Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:13:54 -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: You see those all over the place and can tell from the 'ad hoc' mode that it is another computer instead of a real access point. I always thought it was a scam trying to steal passwords or something, but I guess it's

Re: "Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:13:54 -0600 Les Mikesell wrote: > You see those all over the place and can tell from the 'ad hoc' mode > that it is another computer instead of a real access point. I always > thought it was a scam trying to steal passwords or something, but I > guess it's just another c

Re: "Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
Frank Cox wrote: A new wireless signal showed up on Network Manager on my Fedora 10 laptop yesterday named "Free Public Wifi". As there has never, to my knowledge, been any announcement of anyone providing free public wifi in Melville, I became quite curious about this and attempted to connect t

"Free Public Wifi", and me being snoopy

2008-12-20 Thread Frank Cox
A new wireless signal showed up on Network Manager on my Fedora 10 laptop yesterday named "Free Public Wifi". As there has never, to my knowledge, been any announcement of anyone providing free public wifi in Melville, I became quite curious about this and attempted to connect to it. However, whi