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Re: [OM] OT: A Close Call

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: A Close Call
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 10:01:29 +0100
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 
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