Kuo, Jimmy wrote: >Seems to me the most obvious way is to name the SSID, "FREE". > >That would be rather unambiguous. > > 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? > > > >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 > > > -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ CTO, Immunix http://immunix.com
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