Ahh.. Spectrum Interactive

14 hour layover in Gatwick led me to discover the same thing around 6 months ago.. so I called the 24 hour IT helpdesk from a payphone and described the flaw and possible fixes in detail to the guy on the other end. He was pretty convincing that he would do something about it, but obviously it didn't get through. I said I'd give em till my next time in gatwick to fix, however as it's already exposed...

For all you spectrum interative using airport go-ers here's a nifty little trick:

Ctrl-Shift-Esc brings up the task manager.

Kshield.exe gets killed.. MSconfig turns it off , reboot et voila.

Now you have free net access for the next 13 hours. or you can root it to yer hearts content.

God bless layovers :)