And what would you do for venues like stadium's ?
People expect free wifi in those places, posting the password on a wall
wouldn't work.
It the responsibility of the user to protect themselves, and we all know
how that works out.
Kinda like telling people don't have unprotected sex.
On Mar 20, 2017 12:51 PM, "Anon Anon" <
lokotejones@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> On Mar 20, 2017 12:30 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@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.
>>
>> 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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