I think, Chris, that Nathan might be referring to the fact that at home you
would set the connection up properly to be more secure than at a public access
point.
Chris
> On 6 Jul 2017, at 21:27, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This morning at the coffee shop I was casually browsing when the wifi
> connection became intermitent. This happened repeatedly, se we rebboted the
> wifi hub. Things were stable for a while, but then it acted up again. When
> I went to close a tab on Firefox I got a very peculiar warning in the form of
> a large red rectangle telling me that I could not close the tab because the
> page was not fully downloaded, and giving me three options. I quickly closed
> the entire browser, updated the antivirus and spyware, and then disabled the
> wifi adapter.
>
> Then I did an in-depth antivirus scan, and fortunately nothing was found.
> While that was going on I located the hacker in an adjacent room and invited
> him to leave, which he did. A later spyware scan in safe mode also found
> nothing.
>
> There had been a warning on the morning news about a new form of hacking,
> where the wifi hub is spoofed and you're connected to the hacker. Cute.
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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