By Peter Cochrane, 16 August 2007 12:16
In this video blog, Peter Cochrane explains why a Cardiff hotel lost his business - and how easy it is to find cheap internet access.
Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Escaping expensive wi-fi
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1. anonymous
With phishers using wifi in public places, how about a "how to find better and safe wifi deals" article?
2. Mike McNamara
Peter,
Another excellent post. The WiFi charges seem have taken over from the high charges that hotels used to charge for phone calls until mobiles wiped that out.
Relating this to another of your posts, I expect it's an inexperienced 'Manager' that made the decision who has no experience of what 'value for money' really means.
3. Paul Mansfield
using any internet connection, whether in the office, at home, on wire or wireless is vulnerable to security problems when you are not using an encrypted channel. Sure, public wifi is a real no-no.
...sniffing passwords for pop3 or imap, catching cookies for logins to webmail or ebay, catching logins on non-https websites...
the answer is to (1) clear all your cookies before you browse the net, do not login to any non-https site, or even https sites which bounce you back to a non-http site with a cookie. (2) use only ssl-secured mail (s-imap [tcp993], s-pop3 etc) (3) use a VPN to a trusted place.
also, of course, ensure your firewall is turned on - many people leave it off when they are on a corporate network so file sharing etc work, but the windows one doesn't understand different network profiles properly.