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Every time I have to interact with a "captive portal", I'm annoyed at the hack implemented through DNS hijacking, rather than implementing and extending 802.1X and/or another layer-2 authentication scheme. The idea seems to have been tossed aside entirely. Instead, every device has to have a web browser. There's not even a way to do surrogate registration for devices that don't have browsers, with Apple TV and Ninten…
I have a work laptop (government) that hates captive portals. It has a security system that won't let it connect using the local DNS. So it doesn't get captured. Those of us with such laptops all have tricks for getting to a hotel's wifi login page using IP addresses. But we have to do it fast, before the security software fully wakes up and blocks the hack. We used to just login on our phones, then tether the work l…
Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"
#171Why not just get a travel router and be done with all the “hacks”. They are so small these days they take up very little space. With mine I get connected to hotel WiFi then all my family devices just connect to it, just like they are at home. I even tunnel all hectic traffic back home though a Tailscale exit node.