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<p>Oh HELL no!! What kind of hall-monitor nanny mentality do you
want people to adopt??</p>
<p>I accept "bogus" certificates all the time because the whole idea
of certificates is crap in the first place - they are NOT
maintained - and years ago I got tired of that procedure warning
me about "invalid" certificates for sites that were perfectly
valid.</p>
<p>I've never had a problem. Of course I'm also careful where I go,
certificate or not.</p>
<p>- Vara<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/20/2017 2:12 PM, Brien Dieterle
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe every commercial router should do SSL
interception by default. If a user accepts a bogus certificate
they are taken to a page that thoroughly scolds them and informs
them about the huge mistake they made, forces them to read a few
slides and take a quiz on network safety before allowing them on
the Internet. Maybe do the same for non-ssl HTTP traffic, etc..
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Matt
Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner <<a
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I’m really annoyed that so many companies offer open
WIFI when it would be<br>
so easy to secure those hot spots. Restaurants,
hotels, and the waiting<br>
rooms of auto dealerships are almost 100% open.<br>
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On 2017-03-20 13:20, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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This is usually done as a means to be easy for their
customers.<br>
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Pretty much this. Convenience is more valuable than
security in most people's minds.<span class=""><br>
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they’d be happy to do the right thing if we could
explain it to the right people.<br>
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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]Â 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.<br>
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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"?<br>
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[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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font
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