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Actual paper as a web page: https://www.hegnes.tech/2021/09/01/location-tracking-of-wifi-access-point-and-bluetooth-devices/ https://www.hegnes.tech/2021/09/01/

• xorcist 5y ago
  > or even unencrypted Even unencrypted? I am biased here having run an open wifi since they were commercially avilable. In the beginning, there was this huge concern that wifi would hurt the last mile ISP business. Many started outright forbidding guests using the connection in their terms of service. That didn't work out very well. Calling them insecure and having papers write about how to check that other people couldn't connect to work network worked much better. My concern is that letting the commercial ISPs set the discourse around encryption, which is better suited for the endpoints than the transmission layer, set us back several years of deploying encryption everywhere. It also made for in my opinion unnecessary concerns around real world implementations of mesh networking. Note that there are security concerns with running unencrypted wifi as compared to having a shared secret publicly available. An SSL-only world mostly mitigates this, and encrypted DNS is a piece to this story. End user systems could easily have had a no plain text-option among their firewall settings to help get this going. Language matters. Commercial interests are obvious here, the lay persons focus on transmission encryption made this transition harder, and every time someone speaks of insecure last mile transmission we are reminded of it.
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