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How is user authentication sent in a public wifi? Radius/802.1x/EAP etc
I visit the airport, I pull out my laptop and connect to a network (no password needed).
I open up my browser and i am presented with a screen saying I need to pay to use the network. If I pay, I ...
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Bypassing a captive portal with tor
I know that NSXTS and Iodine can be used to bypass a captive portal by taking advantage of permissive DNS firewall rules.
What I have found recently is that simply by using Tor, I can also bypass a ...
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Designing and managing a captive portal
I'd like to learn more about how a captive portal works, especially the management system regarding usage, security monitoring, billing, security architecture etc.
Does anybody know any good ...
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captive portal wikipedia article
Something on the wikipedia page regarding captive portals have confused me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
When a client requests a website, DNS is queried by the browser. The
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