<div dir="auto">Vara has cool opinions. I like Vara. Keep keepin it real.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2017 14:43, "Vara La Fey" <<a href="mailto:varalafey@gmail.com">varalafey@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">
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<p>Nuh uh. Open hotspots is one of the great things about the
internet, and from time to time everyone needs one - sometimes in
the middle of the night or during holidays when lobbies with keys
posted aren't available. Open hotspots are also a good way to
maintain anonymity for dissidents, whistle-blowers, LGBT who are
not "out", etc. When I have my own routers, I often run them open
for all these reasons, and I always will.</p>
<p>I sometimes educate family and friends about PGP, and one of
these days I will run a Tor node as well, with all the
censor-circumvention tools available. The more that censors and
anti-anonymity Orwellianists don't like it, the more everybody
should do it.</p>
<p>I don't give .001% of a damn whether actual criminals use
hotspots or anything else, in exactly the same ways I don't give
.001% of a damn if they use guns, cars, roads, kitchen knives - or
anything else.<br>
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<p>Instead of desiring safety over the animating quest for freedom,
why don't you suggest educating people to use https? As it is, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (<a class="m_5621474434848089927moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.eff.org" target="_blank">www.eff.org</a>) recently reported
that https use is up to 40%, IIRC.</p>
<p>- Vara<br>
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<div class="m_5621474434848089927moz-cite-prefix">On 3/20/2017 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner
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I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open WIFI when it
would be so easy to secure those hot spots.
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<div>Restaurants, hotels, and the waiting rooms of auto
dealerships are almost 100% open.</div>
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<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.
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<div>If I were a progressive type, I’d suggest
putting stickers on those venues saying:</div>
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<div> We don’t have passwords on our WIFI</div>
<div> because OUR WIFI (and YOUR passwords)</div>
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<div> should be available to everybody</div>
<div> with no effort!</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Any ideas on this?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Victor </div>
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