So a while back, Xfinity introduced a system of free wifi hotspots for subscribers piggybacking off residential and commercial wifi.
My question is, why does anyone connect to them? Why can’t a hacker just name his compromised network with the same name as all of their other hotspots and harvest passwords to his heart’s content? At least with business based wifi, you’ll probably see something is wrong when you see two networks with the same name (although even then, I set my wifi to not automatically connect just because of name).