Kuo, Jimmy wrote:
>Seems to me the most obvious way is to name the SSID, "FREE".
>
>That would be rather unambiguous.
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Indeed, it is equally easy to interpret proper behavior if you see any
of a myriad of "free" signs as it is to interpret proper behavior if you
see "buzz off" signs, such as a WEP-keyed network :)
Those are the easy questions. The hard question is how to interpret a
WAP that has *no* indicators at all, either way. I do not buy the "you
must be stealing from *someone* argument" as that is provably false
under numerous AUPs. OTOH, it is "stealing" under some other AUPs.
However, I would argue that if the AUP prohibits anonymous sharing, then
the person doing the stealing is the ISP customer who deployed a
non-encrypted WLAN, contrary to the AUP, and not the casual passer-by,
who has no way of knowing what AUP is in effect.
Crispin
>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?
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>
>
>On Sep 21, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Gary Driggs wrote:
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>>Don Park wrote:
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>>>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.
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>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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