Wifi password change - network wide

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Hi all,
FYI the password has just changed in Lounges around the country... so if (as I was) you are struggling to login to the wifi, it's likely because 'prioritycheckin' is no longer the password!

Obviously, I'm not going to post the new one... just look for the signs!

Safe flying.
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That Password actually works... :D

//Edit Only Joking...
 
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Hardly surprising since AusBT published it. I note all the "virtual library" flyers have the old password printed on them, so I'd say it was not a planned change.
 
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Pardon my ignorance as I've never been in a VA domestic lounge. Do they use the same password in all the lounges?
 
For some reason I would have thought it would be changed on a regular basis.

Thinking about it I did notice everytime I flew it was the same but as I am to embarrassed to get my 7 year old laptop out in the lounge I never used it.Its bad enough taking it out at security, on saturday I started to take it out of the bag and the security guard must have noticed and said I didnt have too.

Jeez their nice at the Sydney premium entry.
 
totd said:
Pardon my ignorance as I've never been in a VA domestic lounge. Do they use the same password in all the lounges?
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Yes

hydrabyss said:
For some reason I would have thought it would be changed on a regular basis.
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Speaking with an Angel in Sydney a few weeks ago, she mentioned that they're supposed to change regularly (I think she said "every month") but people have just got slack...

It would've been the same password for at least 9 months...
 
Yep,

Business who have free wi fi which is password protected change it regularly.

Keeps people from sitting out the front and taking the internet.

I stayed at a hotel one night and got the wi fi password and next week I stayed there again my lap top reconnected with last weeks password. I don't normally use hotel wi fi but was getting close to running out of data and I had to do a few big downloads of power point presentations.

IMHO waste of time as the password can easily found out.
 
Simo said:
Yep,

IMHO waste of time as the password can easily found out.
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I'm sure someone will know more about this that me, but I understood that WiFI passwords are often to give users greater security.

I seem to remember that a tool became popular a year or two ago that would allow you to capture facebook and other non-encrypted website passwords being used by others if you were simply on the same open wifi network as them.

Just a thought.
 
Andyc said:
I understood that WiFI passwords are often to give users greater security.
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Short answer, yes. WEP and WPA all implement forms of encryption to prevent anyone who does not know the password from seeing the data. No one uses WEP because it takes very little time to break (typically 5~10 minutes on a busy network), but even WPA offered your data little protection against people that do know the password... Hence the need to change regularly.
 
IIRC the password isn't to secure the network connectio0n (e.g. WEP / WPA ) it is just for some access control - if the password was for securing via WEP/WPA then it would ask on initial connection, not via the browser.
 
Andyc said:
I'm sure someone will know more about this that me, but I understood that WiFI passwords are often to give users greater security.

I seem to remember that a tool became popular a year or two ago that would allow you to capture facebook and other non-encrypted website passwords being used by others if you were simply on the same open wifi network as them.

Just a thought.
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Actually it provides no protection to the users on the network from teh sort of thing that you are referring to. If you want to secure your info on a public wifi network you need to create a Virtual Private Network within that.
 
simongr said:
Actually it provides no protection to the users on the network from teh sort of thing that you are referring to. If you want to secure your info on a public wifi network you need to create a Virtual Private Network within that.
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Agreed - relying on any sort of public network (password protected or otherwise) to actually have something preventing someone else from seeing your data is .. courageous. A few suggestions when using someone elses WiFi..:

  • When logging in to websites or submitting personal information online, make sure the web address starts with https:// (this is something that bugs me about AFF...)
  • Make sure your e-mail program is set to connect to the mail server using a secure connection .. check with your mail provider if you're not sure what the settings ought to be (this is one thing that many people tend to forget about or not check)
  • Use a VPN if you can
  • If you can't use a VPN, consider using 3G instead of WiFi
  • If you can't use a VPN or 3G, assume that someone will see what you're typing / looking at
 
What? They've changed it from "relaxunwind" to "killsabrekill"?


In TSV where there's no VA lounge (dammit!) I sit on the seats just outside the QP and accept the terms and conditions with a click to use theirs. Of course I could always hook in using my phone (which is quicker sometimes!) but I'm usually only there for 10 minutes or so. I've never tried to bluff my way into the QP there when I haven't been flying with them although I've been tempted. That's where the old WP any time access would be handy.
 
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