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Having spent four months in a hospital, it isn't just "ISPs" who are the problem.

Rather than the hospital supplying any kind of proper authentication, they MITM the first connection to their WiFi, and logged your IP address as your user. They also required you refresh that connection every half hour or so.

There are a lot of people doing things in really bad ways.

We can't fix all of them, and often we don't have a choice about interacting with them.




Yep. That's why the name for any one of these is "captive portal".




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