Re:How does one advertise a public WiFi hotspot? (Score 1)

Fair start, but maybe not a complete solution? Imagine a car equipped with Wi-Fi, driving around town, and the car (not the driver) "wants" to connect to public access points whenever it can. The car needs an unambiguous, simple, mechanical way to determine if the access point is public. If you'd said just SSID="public" that might be OK. We might also need a general agreement that the factory default should never be SSID="public". So "public" and absence of encryption/authentication would express intent on the part of the access point owner/operator. I wonder if that would make sense to a court?