The “Free Public WiFi” SSID seems to be everywhere – at airports, on planes, and in hotels. Based on what the SSID spells, it seems to be the perfect solution for those seeking to connect to the Internet because it is “Free”…cost nothing…”Public”…you break no laws connecting to it…”WiFi” …a few clicks and you’ll be surfing in no time.
Well this answers everything. I had wondered everytime I got on a train.
That article is a bit out of date though. The problem only happens with XP SP1 RTM, not SP2 or later.
[...] the train home from Elysium’s yesterday I saw another example of the ‘Free Public WiFi’ phenomena. Despite the article being out of date, it is clear some people haven’t reformatted their [...]