Oh HELL no!! What kind of hall-monitor nanny mentality do you want
people to adopt??
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.
I've never had a problem. Of course I'm also careful where I go,
certificate or not.
- Vara
On 3/20/2017 2:12 PM, Brien Dieterle wrote:
> 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.. .
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org
> <mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org>> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner
> <vodhner@cox.net <mailto: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.
>
> [snip]
> On 2017-03-20 13:20, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> This is usually done as a means to be easy for their customers.
>
>
> Pretty much this. Convenience is more valuable than security in
> most people's minds.
>
> they’d be happy to do the right thing if we could explain
> it to the right people.
>
>
> 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] 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.
>
> 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"?
>
> [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.
>
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