My email is whatever shit protonpass comes up with when I generate a random alias. Phone number is 3334445566 Name is: lol no Gender is undisclosed DoB is January 1st of the first year I can select. Otherwise, 1900 And income is 1.
There, free WiFi.
That said…A wifi access point that requests that info is almost certainly not private for every other trackable thing you do with that wifi, however.
If it’s an open WiFi (no WPA password) packets are not encrypted anyway, so anyone on this AP can easily see everything that comes through it. A decade ago, when most websites allowed plain HTTP, there was a Firefox extension which let you hijack the Facebook or Twitter session of anyone connected to an open WiFi with a couple of clicks.
Nowadays everything is hopefully encrypted at the application level, so while attackers can see where the data goes, they can’t actually read it.
I usually use:
Email - nope@nah.com
Name - Nah Nope
Gender - prefer not to say
DoB - same as you
Phone - just random digits, or if I’m feeling spicy the phone number of a guy I used to be buddies with who fucked me over
Income - never been asked for this yet, probably go with something outlandish…like 1
I went to a restaurant recently that asked me to pay my bill with the QR code on the tablet. Scanned it, and the first thing it did was ask for my phone number to verify my “account” by sending me a code.
The server didn’t understand that I wasn’t going to do that, and they needed to run my credit card like normal or I wasn’t paying.
Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I’m never going back to that place again.
That’s why in some ways I don’t mind that my country still pays for mobile data, because I just don’t even bother at restaurants anymore “oh, I’ve run out of data, I can’t scan that, here’s my money”
Because of how severely covid lock downs hit our state, every single restaurant I’ve been to in the last 5 years has used a QR code to order and pay.
I have allergies, so this means I mostly just order black coffee when it’s QR only.
I’m not giving you all of my personal details for an overpriced $5 black coffee. The result is that I sit there with my friends, fiddling my thumbs, not buying anything.
I’m often admin@websiteimsigning.into with a name of admin admin, a birth date of 01/01/1970 a phone number of 4041234567 and address of 123 main street anytown, USA
And then if they expect me to retrieve info from said email or phone number I simply move on
The professionals try to insert some xss attacks into the forms; or all kinds of quote and comma characters in case the data is exported as csv at some point :)
Bro, just one more piece of info bro. Come on bro, just one more piece of your personal info and I’ll let you sign on to the “free” wifi. Bro come on bro, just one more piece of personal info, it’s no big deal for some wifi bro.
What would stop you from using random, invented data?
Don’t use random, invented data. That’s wrong. Use the real data of a ceo or other executive from a company that spammed you. Or if you have the time find out who owns the mall and use their information.
I recently did something similar. My daughter’s orthodontist practice (it’s a large office with multiple locations) from a few years ago sent a spam txt message. I tracked down the owner of the practice and called the office, “I have a new phone number. Please change it on my records.”
And gave the owner’s home number."
info@, postmaster@, web@, abuse@, or any other mandated valid email addresses for the service that wants your data.
Any system that includes an SMTP server supporting mail relaying or delivery MUST support the reserved mailbox “postmaster” as a case-insensitive local name.
