OT: Need a Campaign to Secure WIFI Sites

[Matt Graham]

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> 
> wrote:
>> I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open WIFI when it 
>> would be
>> so easy to secure those hot spots.  Restaurants, hotels, and the 
>> waiting
>> rooms of auto dealerships are almost 100% open.
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On 2017-03-20 13:20, Stephen Partington wrote:
> This is usually done as a means to be easy for their customers.

Pretty much this.  Convenience is more valuable than security in most 
people's minds.

>> they’d be happy to do the right thing if we could explain it to the 
>> right people.

I'm not sure this would happen.  Setting up passwords and then 
distributing those passwords has a non-zero cost and offers zero visible 
benefits for most of the people who are using the wireless networks.[0]  
And as another poster said, what about football/baseball stadiums?  
Distributing passwords to tens of thousands of people is sort of 
difficult.  "Just watching the game" is not an option; people want to 
FaceTweet pictures of themselves at the game.

OTOH, the last time I looked at the access points visible from my 
living room, almost all of them had some sort of access control enabled. 
Maybe there's a social convention forming that "my access point" ~= "my 
back yard" and "open access point" ~= "a public park"?

[0] Having a more educated user population would make the benefits more 
visible, but it's very difficult to make people care about these things.

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