“You know how it is – you’re desperate to get online in an unfamiliar place but with only secured WiFi hotspots around you. You don’t have their passwords, so what can you do?” Martin Bryant asks to TNW.
“Foursquare’s tips are often a good way of finding the password for a nearby hotspot, but it’s not very practical to browse through every nearby location until you find one,” Bryant reports. “4sqwifi is an iPhone app that makes the process much easier.”
Bryant reports, “Open the app and it will display a list of nearby Foursquare locations, filtered to only include those that have a WiFi password in their tips. In theory, it’s that simple – open the app, find a nearby venue’s password, and jump online.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Sounded cool and illegal but it’s just boring and legal and useless
Hey Jack, I heard your new burger was outlawed…
If your in the US, just walk two blocks and BOOM Starbucks! Oh I’ve also noticed that WalMart has FREE AT&T WiFi running at their stores… interesting.
If your what is in the US?
Word.
Most McDonalds have free wifi too.
Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Panera Bread, Target and now Sears. The list goes on and on.
That’s one great thing here in the US because for example in France and Italy it’s tough to find a location that is free and many times the service is slow.
lol sorry typing with one hand and walking in city is no good.
well if you listen to the Android idiots, you should have bought an android with a 55″ screen so you have to use two hands to type, would have avoided that whole typing with one hand problem you have. 😉
Everytime I see some guy walking down the street tapping away on some 4-5″ android, just makes me think of this
Yes, I couldn’t imagine an App, approved by Apple, that was a password breaker.
Pity.
Although it is clearly violating someone else’s privacy, I think I will give it a Wirl with my password protected wifi network.
It’s not a violation at all.
This app simply lists passwords that have een entered into the system.
It’s pretty stupid, because if you would list your password anyway, you may as well leave it unprotected.
I do not know where it shows giving passwords but when I downloaded it, it turned out to be just another wifi sniffer to me. A bad wifi sniffer because it is telling free wifi hotspots from other cities and place at least 20 miles away but the app completely ignores the local wifi hotspots. Just another hyped app. Luckily it’s free…for now.
it relies on users inputing wifi spots…
so input one of those free hotspots you go to.. and someone else will know they can get WiFi there.
Yeahbut…the distance to those Wi-Fi spots is listed in that “metre” and “kilo-metre” coding. Now I have to ask Siri what it means! Sheesh!
People. Its for 4square members. If they put in the password to their own router, then you can get in. It’s not hacking or packet injection or anything nefarious.
This think is not breaking passwords. It is just a filter on listings that have passwords already written down.