Re: Wireless ISPs

[Sean Milheim <sean () idreus com>]

Dan,

Your reasoning is quite skewed.  Yes wireless ISP's should have
encryption and most do.  It is very poor accounting and business
procedures to let everyoune on your network and use it for free.  Unless
maybe you are thinking of a WAP at a coffee house.

However saying that wireless ISP's are responsible for an irresponsible
merchant sending sensitive information over an insecure medium is quite 
reckless.  

How about we hold the person responsible that initially creates the
problem and not hand it off to someone who you already seem to have a
vendetta against.

-- 
Sean Milheim <sean () idreus com>
iDREUS Corporation
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> From: D B <geggam692000 () yahoo com>
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> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
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> Hi Frank
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> Tis a multiple faceted thing
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> The one point it can be addresssed for everyone is at
> the wireless AP, thus I would conclude it is their
> responsibility.
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> Im reasonably sure a jury would follow suit,
> especially when they find out raising the bar to limit
> this would take entering a "password" at the access
> point and the wireless customer.
>
> This isnt nature and leaving it alone doesnt fall
> under  an act of god exclusion, there are easily used
> methods of limiting this and if they arent used I
> could see a serious lawsuit. ( IANAL disclaimer )
>
> They wouldnt even have to use WEP or WAP, merely using
> a secure mail server would raise the level one step
> above plaintext spewing of data. SSL for websites that
> need it and email would limit sniffing to finding out
> who is a pervert in the area. (that could be a good
> thing)
>
> Dan Becker
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> --- Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:20, D B wrote:
> > > [...] Guess what ? the Credit card #
> > > and address are in that email.
> >
> > The ones I get have several **** in them. It's again
> > a blanket statement
> > you make. 
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> > Besides, I think you're confusing web sites
> > operators/developers with
> > {wired|wireless} ISPs.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Frank
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