(January 8, 2015 at 12:39 pm)Nope Wrote:(January 8, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Heywood Wrote: I don't know what Marriot charges, if anything, for their Wi-Fi. What they want to prevent people from doing is setting up their own Wi-Fi. Suppose you are staying at a Hotel and set up your own Wi-Fi hotspot. People log into it thinking it is free and secure and you spy on them stealing their credit card info an such.
Couldn't you just make your own Wi Fi private? I admit to being a bit illiterate when it comes to such issues but I thought that people could set up a password for their Wi Fi?
Last time I went camping someone set up their own Wi Fi network. It was passworded so I couldn't access it. But imagine if it wasn't and the person who set it up was fishing for information to use in identity theft. I could inadvertently give them access to all kinds of personal information.
Hotel's do have a valid reason for not wanting guests setting up their own Wi-Fi networks. That valid reason is some of those guest will set up Wi-Fi networks for nefarious motives.
Here is an article about what kind of information you can obtain just by "listening" in on an unsecured Wi-Fi network.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043095/h...tspot.html
