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 > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 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. > > [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. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss