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Comment Re:The value of securing your AP? (Score 4, Funny) 277

Tell me again what the value is of securing my AP? It gives me another legal defense against ridiculous *IAA assaults, I am under no legal obligation to secure an AP, and my neighbors use it, respectfully of course.

Not everyone has respectful neighbors. When their SSID is "WHITEPOWER", and a couple weeks later it is "KILLNIGGERS", that is not someone I'm going to allow to stroll through my connection. Period. No matter how locked down the rest of the network is, any investigation into their weirdness would start with me.

So sniff all their passwords and use their Facebook account to post "Obama 2012" messages.

Comment Re:Publicity whore... (Score 1) 402

What he proposed isn't going to happen of course.

Of course. And the summary is also wrong in its conclusion: "Is this a good move for security, or just another step towards a totalitarian society that prohibits free expression?"

It's just a step toward all websites using https so that nobody will have a fucking clue what you're looking at anymore. Often these sites have perfectly legit (should we say 'reasonable'?) sections and it's going to be harder and harder to determine which parts the users actually went to.

Pretty soon the government will start requiring new encryption standards that have a backdoor for them to intercept your data. And then it will be illegal for you to use any encryption standards that don't.

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