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Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by Rjevski on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:34AM (#17678183)
If you wanted your Wi-Fi to be for customers only then you'd use WPA2 Enterprise with unique per-user passwords, or at least change the static password every day.
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by blowski on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:55AM (#17678273)
You might want your WiFi to be for customers only, but not have any idea how or enough money to enforce it.
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by Rjevski on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:44AM (#17678481)
I 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.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by michaelper22 on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:04PM (#17681512)
Requires a geek for a few hours and Ubiquiti network gear: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1unif... (from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enter...) Even integrates with Facebook WiFi to abstract away the auth systems (and further degrade privacy!)
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by JetSpiegel on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:22AM (#17678373)
I might want a pet unicorn too, then what?

Changing the password everyday is an acceptable compromise.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by baud147258 on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:28AM (#17678405)
The 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
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by Rjevski on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:22AM (#17678642)
Well 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.

Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by baud147258 on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:30AM (#17679280)
Also I don't think you can access anything in the intranet on that Wi-Fi, it's entirely public, as you said.
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by icebraining on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:01AM (#17678803)
Then you probably won't know enough to setup that trap.
Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges by Theodores on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:36AM (#17678699)
Well, if I was a cafe owner worried about non-customers going nefarious things I would not be happy until IBM deploy a decentralised blockchain solution that anyone with a HTC phone hardware wallet can seamlessly sign in to with the task only taking thirty minutes or so.

Or maybe make it as easy as possible, never changing the password and thereby getting repeat trade. I am sure a firewall can be opted into with the ISP to make sure nobody is downloading ISIS kiddie porn, Trump tweets etc.