20 Oct
2023
20 Oct
'23
11:44 a.m.
i'm briefly in the parking lot of the closest walmart to the university in akron, ohio and unlike other walmart parking lots, the wifi here is gated with a portal that uses javascript and forwards to different sites i logged in via the portal but it wouldn't stick on my laptop, but would on my borrowed ipad after a reconnect. when i reconnected on the laptop, it asked me to log in again, but wanted to forward me to www.cnn.com, accept a certificate chrome deemed incorrect, and then be forwarded from www.cnn.com to www.walmart.com to be logged in. it's possible that the access point is filtering to only allow devices online with compromised ssl cert stores.