Comment by eddythompson80

Comment by eddythompson80 6 months ago

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Had that on the WiFi system at a facility I used to work from for a while.

When you connect to their WiFi, you go to a guest portal to connect to the internet. The guest portal grants your MAC address 24 hours of access. Meaning one day you get to work at 9, the next day you get in at 8:55, you’ll have 5 minutes more of WiFi before things just stop working and your system takes a minute to realize you need to reauth with the captive portal

lxgr 6 months ago

This is why 24 hours is a particularly bad timespan for reauthentication. With e.g. 16 hours, you’d at least get a predictable prompt on each new workday.

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  • steadicat 6 months ago

    One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.

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    • nofunsir 6 months ago

      Ironically, daily standups:project_management::frequent_reauth:security

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    • arccy 6 months ago

      Didn't you take weekends off?

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paxys 6 months ago

And successfully opening a wifi captive portal is the most difficult thing to achieve in all of tech for some reason.

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  • marcosdumay 6 months ago

    It's even harder than moving a file from a desktop into a telephone on the same LAN with an USB cable plugging both.

    Computer security has a problem.

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