:-)
I can barely believe I'm reading some of that stuff on a Linux users'
group, where computer literacy (and beyond) is exceptionally high.
I remember a decade ago when "news" anchors were caviling about, "Who's
running this internet?!? Who's in charge of this?!?"
OMG, the sky was falling, ya know.
This reminds me of that. <shudder>
- Vara
On 3/20/2017 2:47 PM, Anon Anon wrote:
Vara has cool opinions. I like Vara. Keep keepin it real.
On Mar 20, 2017 14:43, "Vara La Fey" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Nuh uh. Open hotspots is one of the great things about the
internet, and from time to time everyone needs one - sometimes in
the middle of the night or during holidays when lobbies with keys
posted aren't available. Open hotspots are also a good way to
maintain anonymity for dissidents, whistle-blowers, LGBT who are
not "out", etc. When I have my own routers, I often run them open
for all these reasons, and I always will.
I sometimes educate family and friends about PGP, and one of these
days I will run a Tor node as well, with all the
censor-circumvention tools available. The more that censors and
anti-anonymity Orwellianists don't like it, the more everybody
should do it.
I don't give .001% of a damn whether actual criminals use hotspots
or anything else, in exactly the same ways I don't give .001% of a
damn if they use guns, cars, roads, kitchen knives - or anything else.
Instead of desiring safety over the animating quest for freedom,
why don't you suggest educating people to use https? As it is, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org <http://www.eff.org>)
recently reported that https use is up to 40%, IIRC.
- Vara
On 3/20/2017 12:29 PM, Victor Odhner 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.
I am not one to say “there ought to be a law” because we have too
many doggone laws, and I’m not that into a lot of demonstrating
and yelling. But I would love to help educate companies on why
they should secure their routers.
If I were a progressive type, I’d suggest putting stickers on
those venues saying:
We don’t have passwords on our WIFI
because OUR WIFI (and YOUR passwords)
should be available to everybody
with no effort!
But being more right-wing, I’d much rather recognize that they’d
be happy to do the right thing if we could explain it to the
right people.
I’ve repeatedly thanked the mechanic shop I use (C&R Tire on
Tatum) because they have a key posted and I can feel sort of safe
going online while I wait for an oil change. But all the places
that have open routers are corporate owned so it does no good to
gripe to the folks behind the desk.
Any ideas on this?
Thanks,
Victor
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