It's very scary, and something I'm doing a paper on. It _is_ just MAC recognition, at least until you try and use a MAC address that's already active somewhere else.
Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:24 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:11:07 -0500, Jay Ashworth said: > > I will give them their props: I only had to sign in *once*, last year; > > their auth controller has recognized my MAC address at every spot I've > > used since. > > Actually, that's sort of scary if you think about it too hard. > Shared-secret > authentication has its flaws, but it still beats shared-nonsecret auth. > > I really hope it's something on your laptop other than the mac address.... >
