I’m sure non-EU visitors will like it
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly nowadays data plans are cheap on most mobile carriers and they’re obligated to have them work accross EU, so you no longer really need Wi-Fi when traveling.
Also, I can see this being easily and constantly exploited via Wi-Fi attacks where hackers set up fake Hotspots with the same name as the closest legit one.
HejMedDig@feddit.dk 1 month ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Getting their credentials stolen thru WiFi attack?
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 month ago
This is not really a common or easy attack, especially for any meaningful service (that is probably in preloaded HSTS lists).
It’s not like this is the only shared network. In airports millions of people everyday connect to the same network.
ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Cries in Brexit
~£2 a day data charge on most UK networks
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Isn’t Lebara less than that per month and includes roaming?
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The more competitive networks tend to include EU roaming as standard. The ones that charge a lot - like the £2/day mentioned - tend to be the ones with captive customers like Sky, for example, where most of their customers also have TV and broadband from them so they’re stuck.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Meanwhile Czech carrier cartel:
BTW free Wi-Fi exploits are pretty much gone with widespread HSTS
Exec@pawb.social 1 month ago
Why is it written with USD?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Only the rich can afford to pay per GB
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 month ago
I have a free 1 MiB/day plan. I only pay €8/year to top up the prepaid SIM. This would be AMAZING in 2005 but now the number of webpages that work on my 2G feature phone via Opera Mini is shrinking. Not to mention, there is no privacy because of the transcoding server. A stock-firmware 4G smartphone would eat through this data in a minute just with background apps calling home.
With the right software (rooted Android, custom clients, transcoding server at home) one could theoretically get all day of use of text- and sparsely image-based services such as email, RSS, SSH, timetables, Lemmy… I’d need at least a data blocker for backhround apps, a kiB meter in the notification bar and a confirmation pop-up for every transaction above 10 kiB (this can be estimated by content length).