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Re: New Hampshire's WiFi bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon May 12 16:09:43 2003
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 12:51:43 -0700
To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>,
Russ Housley (by way of Don Davis) <housley@vigilsec.com>
From: David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, meurer@bu.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030512184639.58D97174D2@arioch.imrryr.org>
At 02:46 PM 5/12/03 -0400, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
>In fact, if you cannot assume that unWEPed 802.11b is a public
>service then it is much more difficult for people to set up freely
>available 802.11b access since you can't determine if you are
>allowed to connect to it before you do in most cases.
>
>The ``front door'' analogy made in the article is obviously a bit
>of a stretch, since passing a few packets around on a radio network
>isn't exactly like inviting yourself in and drinking all the beer.
A better analogy would be trespass laws. The rule there
is that every N feet of your perimeter you must post a sign saying no
trespassing, else (the default) one may pass through. N.H.
is simply extending this, using WEP=signage.
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