Not for the little people
This blog keeps getting visited by someone at http://wifivip.portlandoregon.gov/login.html. Is the City of Portland now running a "VIP" wifi network? Who's got access to it, and where? Not us, not here.
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Comments (14)
Maybe it's Sauron.
Ha, ha.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | April 17, 2012 1:49 PM
Interesting. So you get a message similar to "this page took too long to respond"? It doesn't load at present using Mozilla, CoolNovo,or Safari, and all present the same sort of messages.
Posted by Max | April 17, 2012 3:12 PM
Jack, they're watching you. If you wake up tomorrow to discover that you're in some Welsh resort village, run by a guy named after dookie, and with Patrick McGoohan as your roommate, don't say we didn't warn you.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | April 17, 2012 3:36 PM
Number 7?
Posted by Portland Native | April 17, 2012 5:06 PM
Seems to be offline now -- I guess they were not comfortable with their security meeting Jack's bloggers.
(Probably someone simply forgot VPN and thought VIP sounded classier.)
Posted by Old Zeb | April 17, 2012 5:33 PM
Their secuirity may be VERY happy with bojack visitors...and the info they can mine or????????
Posted by paul | April 17, 2012 5:41 PM
God, who cares.
Posted by peter | April 17, 2012 6:16 PM
the usual questions:
1. what does it cost?
2. why does it exist?
3. who has access to it?
Posted by Kent Mulder | April 17, 2012 6:24 PM
It's their public wifi in places like cityhall. VIP is probably short for visiting public. The site resolves to a privacy disclaimer click-through.
Posted by Joe | April 17, 2012 9:12 PM
Doesn't look like there's anything VIP about it, as it's the kind of thing you force people through on open WiFi the first time they try to access anything over HTTP, via transparent proxying.
Posted by Aaron | April 18, 2012 4:12 AM
(So, if it's not obvious, the reason that that appears as their HTTP referrer is because they connected to the wifi network, typed bojack.org into their browser, but instead got the annoying disclaimer. Like at a hotel. Then once they accept the terms their MAC address is temporarily put on a list that allows them to access the outside Internet, and the page redirects them to the URL they originally typed.)
Posted by Aaron | April 18, 2012 4:17 AM
But I'd disagree with Joe and bet on VIP standing for virtual IP given the context, unless it's just a coincidence.
Posted by Aaron | April 18, 2012 4:27 AM
The VIP Treatment is what Sammy gives you in the Men's Room.
Posted by Mister Tee | April 18, 2012 6:36 AM
Perhaps this wifivip someone could elucidate the unusually terse, typically opaque notice that arrived today:
"Notice of Public Hearing, Public Review of Proposed Administrative Rule, Pre-application process required of applicants for wireless facilities in city rights-of-way
City of Portland
Office for Community Technology
1120 SW 5th, Room 1305
Portland, Oregon 97204"
http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/?c=29385&a=394035
Posted by Gardiner Menefree | April 18, 2012 10:43 AM