CNN and Airports

[Ben]

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

[Perd Hapley]

Fox News: Fair & Balanced Reporting About How Our Competitors Are Evil   

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

[Brad Johnson]

Fox News: Fair & Balanced Reporting About How Our Competitors Are Evil   
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

[Ben]

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.

[Hawkmoon]

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.

[Fly320s]

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.

[KD5NRH]

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.

[230RN]

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.