I am confused about the pricing and access model too. I am suspecting that the reporter didn't understand it well so she wrote whatever made sense to her. Asim >From: Andy Warner <andyw at pobox.com> >Reply-To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org >To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org >Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Wireless at MSP airport >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:27:47 -0600 > >Asim Beg wrote: > > Just curious what you guys think of yesterday's article in Star Tribune. > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1130636.html > >The pricing is a little vague. Concourse/iPass are going >to somehow extract money from corporate accounts, but >if you've got a wireless laptop anyway - it's free. >Am I the only one that can't make that add up ? > >If you go to the concourse/ipass web sites, you'll >not find a whole bundle of info about pricing - they >seem to be following the wayport et. al. model from >what I can tell. Time for an email to concourse... >I'll post what I find out (if anything.) > > > I was amused by one of the comments on slashdot: > > > > "Unless the thing supports IPSec, it would be 100% useless for business > > travelers > > > > Last time I was at the IETF, in Pittsburgh, Marconi was running the show >and > > gave everyone 802.11 cards. I plugged mine into my notebook and fired up >my > > Ethernet sniffer, which collected approximately 700+ webmail > > username/password pairs, over 100 POP logins, a good littering of telnet > > logins, a bunch of tunneled CIFS logins, and other assorted good stuff. > > Enough to crack into a user account at a large portion of the >represented > > telco R&D firms. What I learned at IETF that year: the >telecommunications > > world was still too stupid to be allowed to own wireless ethernet. > >I can vouch for that. At Nanog22 during one of the breaks, >someone put up a slide with 40 or so passwords on it that they had >snarfed with dsniff. >-- >andyw at pobox.com > >Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >Minnesota >http://www.tcwug.org >tcwug-list at tcwug.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx