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[Discuss] Braintree Plaza Wifi



On 4/3/2017 11:05 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> The other day I'm at Red Robbing grabbing a burger and I log into the
> only open wifi accessible. I notice that when you go to a popular
> website like google all is fine. When you go to a lesser known
> website using https (in this case a personal server in Europe) it
> does a man in the middle using an invalid cert from AT&T. I didn't
> have time to play with it more. Such interesting behavior.

Yeah, I have two things I do to work past this.

First, I change DNS servers to use OpenDNS immediately after obtaining
DHCP leases.

Second, all of my browser traffic is proxied. I mostly use SOCKS over
SSH to my server at home. Sometimes I use Tor.

-- 
Rich P.



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