Staying at a MI property? Make sure your computer is secure!
 

Hah! Glad someone was smart enough to catch them!
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...ott-wi-fi-ads/

Thread started on it last week.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...-webpages.html

Cheers.

turns out the hotel wasn't aware the service provider was doing this - once it was brought to their attention they immediately had the issue corrected

You think that they would at least have some disclaimer about this.

Assume that any "public" internet access is suspect. This is particularly true for wi-fi links - easily sniffed, and very easy to do a man-in-the-middle attack.

I had the support desk for the internet connection at one Marriott property tell me that I had to turn my computer firewall off (which would have given them and anyone else full access to my machine) because "we firewall, and you having a firewall on causes problems". I was looking for support as I couldn't set up a VPN OR an SSL connection.

That was when I started spending the money for a cellular wireless connection, and running a VPN connection full-time for internet access.

The hotel may not have known, and most internet providers won't tell you about the things they do.