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I think that depends a bit on context. If I am at home, and my neighbors are advertising an open Wi-Fi network, I’ve never taken that as an invitation to connec
by patch_cable 3y ago
I think that depends a bit on context. If I am at home, and my neighbors are advertising an open Wi-Fi network, I’ve never taken that as an invitation to connect and use it. However, if I’m at coffee shop Foo and I see “Foo Guest” advertised, then sure…
- doctor_eval 3y agoDoes that also give you the right to sniff their network and steal their email passwords?
- dumpsterdiver 3y agoNo it doesn't. Imo, that would be both poor etiquette, and a violation of trust. While I do remember hearing about Google Maps vehicles connecting to open WiFi networks in the news, I don't recall hearing about private credentials being published. Was that the case? I thought it was just a map of open WiFi networks that was published with basic details such as SSID? Edit: I found the article (2010, holy cow does time fly). It looks like they did collect payload data for non-encrypted traffic. Even though the data wasn't published in any way, I must agree that they went too far. I would have no issue if they were to simply verify that they could connect and record basic info such as SSID, but collecting payload data from network requests was inappropriate.