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Title: Can you free yourself from captive.apple.com? Post by: HCK on January 09, 2018, 04:05:11 pm Can you free yourself from captive.apple.com?
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Wi-Fi portals use an ugly hack to intercept a connection when the venue wants you to either pay, log in with an account, or accept terms before using a free network. When you select the Wi-Fi network, your Mac or iOS (or other) device receives a legitimate local network address, but the hack—which dates back about two decades now—hijacks DNS (domain name system) queries.</p><p>This means that when your device looks up a site to which you’re trying to connect, instead of returning the correct numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address, the portal’s router instead provides a local network address, which is intended to load a web page through which you navigate your admission to the network.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3241896/ios/can-you-free-yourself-from-captiveapplecom.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Can you free yourself from captive.apple.com? (https://www.macworld.com/article/3241896/ios/can-you-free-yourself-from-captiveapplecom.html#tk.rss_all) |