How did my Air get Hijacked?

I hope this is the correct section for this question.
I was trying to use my MBA in an Airport lounge when very strange things started to happen. The cursor started to erratically select things on the screen, jumping around on its own and both left and right clicking. It would not reliably respond to the trackpad and trackpad button, sometimes behaving almost normally, others ignoring me completely. The best way to describe what was happening would be to say that someone else was controlling my cursor.
My question is, how?
Bluetooth was switched off and the firewall was fully locked down and just for good measure Little Snitch was running as well. I was connected to the internet by a public access free WiFi point. There was someone else close by using the same WiFi using a PC and a PCMIA card with external antenna, but surely that would just jam the network connection if it did anything at all, not take over my cursor? The guy was not using a wireless mouse but was playing a grid type game with mouse movements that looked suspiciously like what was happening on my screen. Swithing off airport brought everything back to normal (when I finally got the cursor to the right part of the screen for long enough.)
So, what happened, and how do I stop it, other than by changing my seat, which is what I did...
Message was edited by: David Greenhalgh
Message was edited by: David Greenhalgh

It was Xi'an in China and no, it was not a pay WiFi, it was the complementary WiFi in the First Class lounge (ahem...upgraded...ahem.) I am reasonably sure it was the real network, no other network showed up in Airport Connect.
Little Snitch did not show any untoward outbound activity. I am more than a little concerned that with the OS X Firewall on and absolutely nothing enabled, Bluetooth Off and nothing, not even a power cord, physically plugged in, something/someone could take over the mouse. It is not even a case of going to a malware page as I didn't have enough control of anything to go to anywhere other than Command-Q.
Symptoms survived a Restart, i should have mentioned that earlier. I am still convinced that the interference was coming from the guy close by me, but I am totally at a loss as to how.

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