After blocking personal hotspot at hotel, Marriott to pay FCC $600,000 Marriott remains defiant: "We believe that the Opryland's actions were lawful."
by Cyrus Farivar Oct 3 2014
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After blocking personal hotspot at hotel, Marriott to pay FCC $600,000
Oct 05, 2014
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CommLawBlog's article provides more of the legal background than the Ars article.
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Neal McLain
However, *they* seem to have gotten the technical details wrong. A "deauthentication packet" sent to an access point does not cause it to "disconnect from the network". Deauthentication packets are sent *by* access points to *clients*. So Marriott's system must have been forging deauth frames, pretending to be the user's mobile hotspot, telling the user's other devices that their connection has been cut off. Some clients can be configured to ignore these packets, and would not have been affected.
-GAWollman
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