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You might want your WiFi to be for customers only, but not have any idea how or enough money to enforce it.
by blowski 8y ago
You might want your WiFi to be for customers only, but not have any idea how or enough money to enforce it.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoI might want a pet unicorn too, then what? Changing the password everyday is an acceptable compromise.
- baud147258 8y agoThe password was changing everyday where I worked, with the daily password available on an intranet page, but then a few months ago a bunch of higher-ups were present in the office for a few days and wanted Wi-Fi access without having to type a new password each day, so the password rotation has been deactivated since
- Rjevski 8y agoWell they chose convenience over security, which in this case is fair enough (it's public Wi-Fi to being with). Another solution would've been to implement WPA2 Enterprise, where employees could have their own, permanent credentials while visitors get temporary ones.
- baud147258 8y agoAlso I don't think you can access anything in the intranet on that Wi-Fi, it's entirely public, as you said.
- Rjevski 8y agoI might want a million dollars but have no idea how to earn it nor enough power to force everyone to give me their money. Now give me my million dollars! Let’s be real. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
- icebraining 8y agoThen you probably won't know enough to setup that trap.
- michaelper22 8y agoRequires a geek for a few hours and Ubiquiti network gear: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1unifi-18-guest-control-1440x1334.png https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1unif... (from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enterprise-wi-fi-at-home-part-two-reflecting-on-almost-three-years-with-pro-gear/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enter...) Even integrates with Facebook WiFi to abstract away the auth systems (and further degrade privacy!)