Is it permissible to use a personal phone on GM guest wifi to listen to a (clean) podcast, youtube or music streaming while you work via earbuds?
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I'll spell it out for you cheechako, and this is the best advice anyone can give you.
Keep your devices off gm's network. Only a f**l argues like u r doing.
Embarrassing that he won’t let it go.
Fact: Wi-Fi doesn’t put cookies, trackers, ad pixels, etc. Websites do.
Really, really sad. Get a hobby or better yet, read up on Wi-Fi networking.
"Very different going to a website or receiving an email than connecting to a Wi-Fi network."
W_T_ * do you THINK you're accessing when you GM'S VERY OWN GUEST WIFI, IT GUY???
@6glx+1pYbuDZY
“websites, applications, email messages and advertisements”
Very different going to a website or receiving an email than connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
Nice try, but a fail.
23 and d-mb.
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Something to keep in mind:
In the cafeteria at the VEC, there's a safety bulletin (near the stairs) that explicitly tells people to turn off their wifi for safety.
They don't do that because there are mystery "wifi trackers" as someone here keeps insisting on (misguided or d-mb?). They tell you to avoid wifi because there are honeypots that can and will steal information on your device, including sensitive information. A wifi device can spoof itself as "GM GUEST WIFI" or any other name that seems legit. Beyond that, bad actors can exist on a public wifi (even if that wifi is legit) that can use network sharing and scanning tools to access your device for nefarious reasons.
It's safer to use the secure WiFi option at GM where you log in with your credentials.
If you can get a cell phone signal at work, turn your WiFi off for the safest, easiest option.
"Wifi can't install anything on your phone. Here's how it works."
No, HERE is how it works.
As soon as you accept their terms and conditions of use you just put it on your phone.
Fixed.
@3per+1pYbuDZY
You obviously have nothing intelligent to add, so why bother embarrassing yourself?
Should be some surplus Alpine cassette decks just waiting to be wired up
@2rpy Don't quit your daytime job.
Before I get started, here's a nod to the guy who can't fathom that a person can be a business analyst AND understand tech. LOL (I'm still laughing about it.)
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Wifi can't install anything on your phone. Here's how it works.
Your phone, laptop or any device that connects to the internet have a MAC address on it's network interface. If you have an Ethernet port and a wifi module, each one has a MAC address.
When the device connects to the internet or intranet using one of these connections, the server it's connected to will see that MAC address and log it. So if you are using a personal laptop, work laptop, workstation, phone, xbox, iPod Touch, whatever... GM's server will collect that MAC address and log it. If you are doing something nasty, it will log that traffic. So the person who keeps getting his post taken down here for saying that he looks at something unsavoury, GM knows what he's doing. If you are on Linkedin looking at jobs, they know. There's no tracker, but a device ID and a local IP.
Beyond your MAC address, your device also has an identifier. If you iPhone name is something like, "leatherqueen69", it will show up next to the MAC address and the assigned IP address.
IP Addresses
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The Server itself will have an internet IP address. Something like 58.35.42.165. On it's intranet, it will assign your device a local IP address, like 192.168.0.25. When you access the internet, the internet will see everyone on that network as 58.35.42.165, BUT will also see your device address, aka MAC address.
No one is anonymous, even on this site. Be careful what you do, say and access because it can 100% be tracked back to you. Nothing I have just said is speculation.
Rumor has it that the "guest" wifi will install a hidden tracker on your phone, doing who knows what.
I never brought my personal devices to work and used my desktop pc to get the most incredible education about our world by viewing yt and many, many other sites.
There was plenty of downtime to endure and I used it to my best advantage.
Anyway if there was an IT guy tracking me, they too got the education of a lifetime.
Welcome to the honeypot post.