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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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