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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on March 23, 2018, 10:42:04 AM

Title: CNN and Airports
Post by: Ben on March 23, 2018, 10:42:04 AM: Looks like CNN's airport monopoly may be in jeopardy. Even if you take the "bias politics" out of it, I can see why airports (even SFO) are looking at eliminating it. I rarely watched it even before ubiquitous airport wireless. If I wasn't reading a book, I was people watching or doing something non-internety on my laptop. Nowadays, if I'm not reading on the Kindle, I might pull the phone out for my news, weather, flight schedules, or a million other things better than close-captioned news on a faraway TV screen I can barely see.

Maybe they can keep their TVs and just make a deal with the Weather Channel, or just run airport information on the TVs.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/03/23/how-cnn-airport-force-feeds-partisan-content-to-unsuspecting-travelers.html
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 23, 2018, 12:25:36 PM: Fox News: Fair & Balanced Reporting About How Our Competitors Are Evil :lol:

Do airports typically provide Wi-Fi for travelers? That would be an easy way to please everybody, wouldn't it?
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: Brad Johnson on March 23, 2018, 12:34:45 PM: Quote from: fistful on March 23, 2018, 12:25:36 PM
Fox News: Fair & Balanced Reporting About How Our Competitors Are Evil :lol:
Do airports typically provide Wi-Fi for travelers? That would be an easy way to please everybody, wouldn't it?

Open wifi. A big fat NOPE! on that one. Too many electronic snoopy-nasties around for me to trust it.

Brad
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: Ben on March 23, 2018, 12:57:15 PM: Quote from: Brad Johnson on March 23, 2018, 12:34:45 PM
Open wifi. A big fat NOPE! on that one. Too many electronic snoopy-nasties around for me to trust it.

Brad

VPN or your phone hotspot.
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 23, 2018, 08:28:19 PM: Quote from: fistful on March 23, 2018, 12:25:36 PM

Do airports typically provide Wi-Fi for travelers? That would be an easy way to please everybody, wouldn't it?

Most provide WiFi these days, but my experience has been that many still charge -- a LOT -- for it. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was free (but with ads) at Las Vegas McCarran when I went to the SHOT Show in January.
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: Fly320s on March 23, 2018, 08:29:50 PM: Quote from: Hawkmoon on March 23, 2018, 08:28:19 PM
Most provide WiFi these days, but my experience has been that many still charge -- a LOT -- for it. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was free (but with ads) at Las Vegas McCarran when I went to the SHOT Show in January.

More and more are going to free with ads.
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: KD5NRH on March 24, 2018, 01:27:28 AM: Quote from: Brad Johnson on March 23, 2018, 12:34:45 PM
Open wifi. A big fat NOPE! on that one. Too many electronic snoopy-nasties around for me to trust it.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html

Somewhere I've got one install set up with basically zero protection except for the bit of getting me safely through whatever network I have to connect to. Passwords and CC# saved in the browser, etc, but nothing on the local end is going to be able to get them unless it manages to crack tor's layers of encryption insanely quickly.
Title: Re: CNN and Airports
Post by: 230RN on March 24, 2018, 04:34:55 PM: Am I beginning to notice this in fast food franchises, too?

Nah. Must be just geriatric paranoia. But I think I'll pay more active attention evermore.