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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by therealmarv on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:09PM (#22163813)
We need DoH (DNS over HTTPS) and/or DoT (DNS over TLS) faster and everywhere, including routers, browsers, OSes. And we need to get rid or find a viable alternative to this hostile hotel and airport WiFi hijacking DNS login methods which is essentially the same this hackers have done in a larger scale! We need some alternative and good method for that.
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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by packet_nerd on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:39PM (#22164100)
Agreed. The wireless (and wired) login/ToS page redirects common in guest Wifi and corporate environments were never really designed for. They work now by abusing what are essentially design flaws, and they don't even work very well.

Another glaring hole in Wifi is that there's no open + encrypted option. Your options are basically open with no encryption at all, personal mode (shared key for authentication and encryption), or enterprise mode (username + password, certificate-based, or similar).

The Wifi authentication standards should really be modernized to address these issues.

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