New Hampshire's WiFi bill

[David Honig]

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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