Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot | TechCrunch

2014-06-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:47 +, Parks, Raymond wrote: > Of course, you could pull off Marcus' idea by sniffing wifi traffic of > real Comcast customers looking for that SSID, changing your server's > MAC to match the Comcast customer, and then running Tor. Seems likely a neighborhood where one

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot | TechCrunch

2014-06-11 Thread Parks, Raymond
My understanding is that the Comcast "free" wifi is a separate SSID connecting to a separate VLAN. This means that only Comcast customers can leech off other Comcast customers (supposedly the traffic is not counted against the modem customer's cap but the extra traffic could affect the customer