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I hate Wi-Fi landing pages, you hate Wi-Fi landing pages, and guess what? The firewall also hates landing pages. (media.witter.cz)

submitted 2 months ago by ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemm.ee to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev

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[–] ihatefascist@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Connecting to free wi-fi without a vpn is b0nkers

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what VPN companies want you to think. All services that transfer sensitive data use HTTPS so I don't care.

Anyway, you can't connect to a VPN server in the "sign in to the network" phase.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Openvpn to your own network.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can't send packets except to the captive portal before you sign in to the network. That's how captive portals work. Only after signing in can you then reach other servers, probably including your own.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, you will need to connect to the landing page first.

As far as security concerns about sketchy VPN services, you can at least control your connection with openvpn.

Use tls-crypt to encrypt your initial connection.

Don't use public Wi-Fi for anything sensitive regardless of your confidence.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Eeeeeee, I wouldn't be so sure about that. I was able to ignore the captive portal in a few places by connecting Mullvad on port 123 (port used for NTP).

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In 2019, I've been to China for my cousin's wedding. I didn't get a VPN, I just connected to a free public network whenever I needed it. Haven't seen a single landing page. Probably was heavily spied on, but I didn't get holed up in a solitary cell when going to the airport, so it went well I guess.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some co-workers told me they got scam attempts trying to get into their bank accounts.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was aware that there would be some snooping operation going on, so I stayed away from sensitive stuff. I mainly used it to get directions and to shitpost on reddit. If they compromise my reddit account, I literally don't give a shit lol