Unsecured wifi might be contributory negligence

Igor Mozolevsky mozolevsky at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 21:02:50 GMT 2012


On 19 February 2012 20:21, Ian Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:
>
> On 19 Feb 2012, at 20:02, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>
>> On 19 February 2012 19:42, Ian Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19 Feb 2012, at 19:28, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking more of people who live on income support/council
>>>> estates and the "older" generation...
>>>
>>> They weren't buying laptops prior to WPA2 being common place.
>>
>> What makes you say that?
>
> Because the first mass-market integrated WiFi solution was the Intel
> 2100 MiniPCI card, which was released in late 2002.  That does WPA2
> with Windows XP SP3.   There's a Broadcom card of a similar vintage,
> that also does WPA2 with up-to-date drivers.    Prior to the MiniPCI
> cards, you needed to use PCMCIA cards.   I don't believe that laptops
> were being purchased as consumer items in 2002, and especially not
> with PCMCIA cards to add wireless.

[snip]

If end-user WPA2-capability is so widespread then, is the problem of
open and unsecured wifi APs so widespread and causes so many problems
that the passing of appropriate legislation is warranted?


--
Igor M.



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