Seems to me the most obvious way is to name the SSID, "FREE".
That would be rather unambiguous.
Jimmy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-crime@private [mailto:owner-crime@private] On Behalf Of
Don Park
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:07 PM
To: Gary Driggs
Cc: CRIME
Subject: Re: CRIME wireless case study URLs?
On Sep 21, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Gary Driggs wrote:
> Don Park wrote:
>
>> Possibly the best answer is to have a policy indicator in the beacon
>> packet that states the intent of the access point owner. Since we
>> don't have this in 802.11b, the next best thing could be to use an
>> essid of a community wireless group where its fairly well established
>> that the standard essid of the group is meant to indicate that free
>> open access is allowed.
>
>
> Better yet, all APs should have a captive portal page similar to
> NoCatAuth or NoCatSplash. It would allow you to warn anyone using your
> AP whether it were freely usable or not.
>
One thing I've seen that struck me as useful is to put )( in the essid.
")(" being an approximation of the warchalking symbol for an open
access point. Although some access points are pretty stringent on what
characters are allowed in the essid.
don
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