[Cialug] _nomap for wireless networks

Paul Gray gray at cs.uni.edu
Tue Nov 15 09:05:44 CST 2011


On 11/15/2011 08:57 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
>
> Lame, I don't want to change my ESSID to opt out.  It should be a opt-in
> sort of thing.  And the ESSID is about the lamest way to do it anyway.
> Not that there's a decent way to do it.  They really shouldn't be doing
> it at all.

Exactly - It should be a _scan_me opt-in paradigm.

Home users' APs shouldn't broadcast their ESSID's in the first place.

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