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.

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.

If I were a progressive type, I’d suggest putting stickers on those venues saying:

    We don’t have passwords on our WIFI

    because OUR WIFI (and YOUR passwords)

    should be available to everybody

    with no effort!

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. 

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.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,

Victor 

 

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