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However, even if the geolocation of an IP address is accurate, the threat actor may not be physically located near it instead, they may be hiding their true location through the use of spoofing and network tunnels.

Additionally, the accuracy of this information varies by source. The level of geographic precision varies widely across sources some provide country and locality details, while others provide neighborhood-level detail. There may be hotels out there more on top of there free wifi restricting security, but so far the places I have stayed at all do this same browser authentication method.The geolocation of an IP address is often obtained with publicly available information ( WHOIS registration) or proprietary information. Whereas I have been able to successfully do this three times now with just my phone (non rooted) and my Chromecast. I am only posting this here because I have looked online and the other workarounds I see involve additional investments for routers, rooting your phone to mac spoof/using your computer to do that etc. I can't say for sure that it is not MAC spoofing, think of it like having your computer telling the Network that your other device is "cool". If you edit the MAC address (like say input your Chromecast's MAC), and load the page with the edited URL, you can whitelist another MAC address that is not your computers (which was all I needed to do for my chromecast). When you get redirected on a phone/laptop, some browser based authentications pull your local IP address and your MAC address and throw it up into the URL for future reference, but do not check it against your devices actual again after that. But a few weeks ago I noticed something when authenticating with the network. For roku (the old one I have new models may be different), chromecast, and other stuff that does not implement a browser directly this is typically not something that is work-around-able without MAC spoofing. For laptops and phones, that is no issue since you just need to open up a browser and get redirected.

The issue I ran into was most of the hotels required a browser based log on to authenticate your device on their unsecured network. For those who don't want the background skip to the explanation.Īlright, I have been to a few hotels in the past few weeks and decided to pick up a chromecast to watch netflix on the nice big TVs that are kind of boring for me otherwise.