[ale] heads up - warning - you could be sharing comcast wifi without knowing it

[Pete Hardie]

I was pondering the possibility of the cable modem taking shortcuts or
having bugs that would route the guest wifi into my home subnet
erroneously.  If, as has been mentioned, the nets are fully separate until
they hit the CMTS, then it's not an issue.

Pete Hardie
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So if someone uses this free wifi access to hack one of my machines, is
> > Comcast liable?
>
> How would they do that?  Do you not have a firewall for your machines?
> The way I understand this is that the "public wifi" portion would be on
> a different network than your "personal" connection, so anyone on the
> public side would have the same access to your network as someone
> anywhere else on the Internet.
>
> -derek
>
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