Dawn DiPietro wrote: > http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_108212704.html
(For those too lazy to click on the link: a BYU professor apparently wants to mandate that everyone in Utah has to enable some form of security on their access points, to stave off the ravenous gangs of laptop-wielding teens who are driving around, looking for open APs from which to browse porn.) This has about as much to do with porn as, um, something that really has nothing to do with porn. Sorry, the metaphor-machine is broken today. That old "won't someone think of the children" chestnut is just how they're selling it. The headline is good old-fashioned sensationalism. Anyway, onto the meat. This "article" (does something that small really count?) ignores the fact that there are a number of circumstances where you would WANT your access point to be open, with no security or encryption. Don't you just love it when politicians try to make technical decisions for which they're ill-qualified? (As an aside, which state agency has the time and the budget to enforce this, should it become law?) The smart teens just download their porn at home and clear the browser history when they're done, thus circumventing this law anyway :D David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
