Subj : WiFi PW's
To   : BOB ROBERTS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Jan 01 2021 05:18:08

   Bob wrote --

>  JM> I saw a cartoon recently that had the motel guest wifi PW as:
>  JM> Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and having those stars instead of characters show up. :)
> 
> I'm all for complicated passwords, but thats just mean!  

  I traveled a lot in the spring/summer of 2019/20 and when I checked into
a motel I would be given a wifi PW which were usually the along the lines of
motel name and a three or four numbers.
  At times I would stop at a burger joint and use their free public wifi to
check a map or something.  I seldom brought anything.  I pulled onto their
lot close to the building, get the information and continued on.
  Usually it about a wrong turn I made along the way or needed  more
detailed information than the map I had offered.
  
> The newer Apple Iphones have a feature where if they see a Wifi network they can't connect to, they will request the Wifi password from nearby Iphones that are connected to it

  My old SE has a similar feature.  
  I would be hesitant using an unknown wifi signal.  Not that I have
anything on my phone.  I'm old-fashioned, to be its a phone not an extension of
me.  I don't have anything much that's confidential on it.
  I never, ever, use it for mobile banking and the like. 

>  JM> Don't recognise your name. Welcome to Memories. Pull up a chair and visit a while.
> 
> Here I am.  :-)

  Yep, there you are.  :)
  Joe
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