Dan and I flew into JFK on JetBlue last night and we noticed that JetBlue offers free wifi in their waiting area, but while trying to access this service we noticed several open peer-to-networks labeled “Jet Blue hot spot” or variations on that name. None of these were the actual free access point (which was called something generic, like “default”). We speculated that hackers were trying to lure people into these pseudo connection points. If so, someone ought to tell JetBlue. If not, what were all those p2p access points?
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I'll add that the quality of the free WiFi hotspot was terrible. After battling it for 10 minutes I opted to check both my corporate and Yahoo! email via webmail on my HTC mobile phone.
Posted by Dan Harrelson | October 6, 2006 10:10 AM
Posted on October 6, 2006 10:10