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Mr. Luddite

On 11/22/2013 12:22 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:38:21 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

If your device (computer, smart phone, iPad or whatever) detects a
"XFINITYWiFi" signal as an available network, you connect to it.

The more I think about this the scarier it gets.
What happens when that "XFINITYWiFi" router you see is a spoofer, they
play you like a real Xfinity site, get your password and along the way
they also dump your device to their machine.

I hope there is more security than you have described.

I don't know. I've described everything I know about it so far.
I don't see how it's any different than the "free" WiFi connections that
many public places have now except you have to have a Comcast account to
access it.

I am not going to worry about it though. You don't *have* to use it and
if your home router is transmitting the second channel you can call
Comcast and have it disabled if you desire.