<p dir="ltr">And what would you do for venues like stadium's ?<br>
People expect free wifi in those places, posting the password on a wall wouldn't work.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It the responsibility of the user to protect themselves, and we all know how that works out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kinda like telling people don't have unprotected sex.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2017 12:51 PM, "Anon Anon" <<a href="mailto:lokotejones@gmail.com">lokotejones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I'm not sure how their router being open would affect you...? Bad actors can just ask for the password too. So what are you defending against?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2017 12:30 PM, "Victor Odhner" <<a href="mailto:vodhner@cox.net" target="_blank">vodhner@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open WIFI when it would be so easy to secure those hot spots.<div><br></div><div><div>Restaurants, hotels, and the waiting rooms of auto dealerships are almost 100% open.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I am not one to say “there ought to be a law” because we have too many doggone laws, and I’m not that into a lot of demonstrating and yelling. But I would love to help educate companies on why they should secure their routers.<div><br></div><div><div>If I were a progressive type, I’d suggest putting stickers on those venues saying:</div><div><br></div><div> We don’t have passwords on our WIFI</div><div> because OUR WIFI (and YOUR passwords)</div></div><div> should be available to everybody</div><div> with no effort!</div><div><br></div><div>But being more right-wing, I’d much rather recognize that they’d be happy to do the right thing if we could explain it to the right people. </div><div><br></div><div>I’ve repeatedly thanked the mechanic shop I use (C&R Tire on Tatum) because they have a key posted and I can feel sort of safe going online while I wait for an oil change. But all the places that have open routers are corporate owned so it does no good to gripe to the folks behind the desk.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas on this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Victor </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div><br>------------------------------<wbr>---------------------<br>
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