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17 pointsjessaustin29 comments

At a very high level, this idea seems interesting. But I've seen a few sites like this one recently and I'm not a fan. They generally have a cool-looking page but hardly any information saying what they ACTUALLY do. My guess is they want us to click around the page(s), admire the design and ideally, sign up to learn more.

Frankly, not many people seem to be a fan of it so future landing page designers, please take note of this and avoid it. Beautiful design is awesome but it is merely the cherry on top. If the stuff below it sucks, the cherry loses its significance.

Landing pages like those are becoming the new 1999 restaurant website Flash intros.

It's very similar to companies that hide their entire page between a modal dialog until I sign up or sign in with Facebook. This forced method of handing over my information generates zero trust in me. In fact I think this is very slimy. What don't you demonstrate your value to me first before I give you my info.

Earn my trust.

Don't just claim something. At least give me SOME proof of your value before asking for my info.

this website does approximately zero to explain anything about the service they are offering.

Yup. Click. Look around. Navigate away.

I think worse than that I have no idea of how this service works and what the security implications are, and that specifically makes me hesitant to sign up.

But on the up side, it has a Pinky & the Brain reference, so yay for that.

I'm not entirely sure what this does. According to the site, it "shares WiFi". I don't know if that means it'll send the WiFi credentials to all of your devices over Bluetooth or an app or create an ad-hoc network. It would be helpful if the website had screenshots or drawings explaining exactly what GetWifi does.

I hate websites where they tell you literally nothing about how they achieve what they do. Not signing up just to find out what you do...

After surfing for a minute, I'm not really sure what at all this service will offer to me as your customer.

I think in the header it would've been cuter if they had done randomly generated strings for the "fake password" (Q0NDB11LQ), since that's basically what default ISP router passwords are anyways. And it is annoying when people don't change them and tell me to go read it off a sticky note on their refrigerator.

You guys may want to filter out a Wifi URL based on some page routes. I made getwifi.io/login, which, coincidentally, is the login page.

http://i.imgur.com/E8IdmjZ.png

Looks like they fixed that fast after your comment. [domain]/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd is still possible though, which then makes getwifi.io/etc/passwd.

Really, they should obfuscate the user-submitted URL entirely instead of blacklisting or whitelisting.

I can recommend Instabridge, which seems to do the exact same thing. [1]

[1]: http://instabridge.com/en/

How does it work? The only word they use for it is "magically".

So, you actually invented magic, and of all the possible things you could do with it, you chose this?

For mobile devices: Just create a QR code, than you don't need to share your password with any one, except who is directly at your location.

How is it possible that although this post gets only negative comments it still gets to be 3th post on front page? If everyone considers this service to be bad, then it shouldn't even get to the front page.

I don't have anything against this website, but I've seen this stuff happen before and I don't understand it.

So if you brute force http://getwifi.io/XXX you get everyone's WiFi passwords. Great idea.

Also check out my version: http://getwifi.io/whatyouwritebelow

Also: delete this site.

So, nice design... What do you do?

Philippe, CTO “What shall we do tonight?”

I get it now, it's all a joke!

It's a cool concept - but unless you integrate it at the router level, bad things start happening. Mainly, guests and homeowners will be able to talk to each other (on the connection) and that's not good.

I could see more viability if it was built into the router with separate VLAN's.

Hm.. Is this similar to my service, www.GetOnMyWifi.com?

I generate a QR code that when scanned with an iOS device, will push a mobile provisioning profile down to the device and log them onto your wifi.

Edit: Yep, looks like a different implementation of the same 'trick' :)

Ok, so you can guess the wifi access points via bruteforce:

Example: http://getwifi.io/test <-- Easy.

No transport encryption.

And why is this better than a note on the frig?

No idea what this is or what service they are providing. The website is terrible.

"securely" is spelled wrong.

Out of curiosity, what does this service do? It lets me share my computer's list of known wifi hotspots with another computer?

Somewhere in the depths of Bluetooth Proximity Pairing, I remember seeing this. As part of the standard, not as a random startup with no influence on industry.

Small bug report: password validation message says it has to be at least 5 characters, when it actually has to be more than 5 characters.

Yes, I'll be happy to provide a password over your non-SSL website that can be intercepted by anybody MITM'ing me. rolls eyes

Sounds similar to http://www.mandicmagic.com/

This seems like an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" situation.

This seems to me like an extreme "first world" problem?

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