Hardwiring the modum to the Computer?
I have just picked up a modum from the ISP. In the process i also had to have the phone company sent a service person to get the junk running. In the process the tech showed me that the ethernet c...
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Close, but not quite. Having past connections to open WLANs stored opens you to unintentionally connecting to a honeypot run by a bad actor. And open WLANs are VERY common, although most require you go through a captive web portal to agree to terms or sign on before you get full access.
If I wanted to snoop on traffic, I'd just set up an AP with the SSID "Starbucks" or "Panera Bread" (or those and a host of others, all at once). It's very common for people to be set up to connect to such SSIDs automatically. Beyond that, many clients actively probe, looking for specific SSIDs. That can be sniffed, and a suitable SSID created just to suck them in.
Oh, paddwanpeep, I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know. I've been doing data networking for 35 years, the past 20 working for several major manufacturers of enterprise networking equipment.
And, there are bad people out there, actively trying to get your information. More than you hear about, because when the charge card company calls and says there are these unexpected charges from Tierra del Fuego, people don't associate it with the free WiFi they accessed a month before.
If I wanted to snoop on traffic, I'd just set up an AP with the SSID "Starbucks" or "Panera Bread" (or those and a host of others, all at once). It's very common for people to be set up to connect to such SSIDs automatically. Beyond that, many clients actively probe, looking for specific SSIDs. That can be sniffed, and a suitable SSID created just to suck them in.
Oh, paddwanpeep, I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know. I've been doing data networking for 35 years, the past 20 working for several major manufacturers of enterprise networking equipment.
And, there are bad people out there, actively trying to get your information. More than you hear about, because when the charge card company calls and says there are these unexpected charges from Tierra del Fuego, people don't associate it with the free WiFi they accessed a month before.
