I agree, this is not a tracking to be scared of it is the same that everyone does on their own sites today. Bill -----Original Message----- From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org]On Behalf Of John T. Hoffoss Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:33 PM To: 'Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List' Subject: RE: [TCWUG] Another point on the wifi hotspot business model curve.. Probably, but this isn't nearly as ominous as McDoanlds (btw, this is the SSID of the Dinkytown McDonalds AP) capturing my CC info on said website. In addition, this really isn't any different than what is done with cookies, and in fact, this tracking could probably be embedded in normal website cookies tracking the source IP, and comparing with the DB of IPs McDonalds has available. > -----Original Message----- > From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org > [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] On Behalf Of William Titler > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:24 PM > To: mellsworth at stratvantage.com; Twin Cities Wireless Users > Group List; sulrich at botwerks.org > Subject: RE: [TCWUG] Another point on the wifi hotspot > business model curve.. > > The truth is that many of the big non web companies that are > offering or planning to offer wifi in their stores for pay or > free will be sniffing the traffic so that they can mine the > information of where people go to create better marketing > relationships. They will be using a login page that is not > their own site but say Bestbuy.com with the login for the > wifi network imbedded in the page at McDonalds. By sniffing > the traffic McDonalds can see how long the user stayed on the > site and what they bought so that bestbuy will be paying > appropriately for the marketing. _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list