Re:A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
by sjwright on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:32PM
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I agree; I don't think it's right either.
To take your hotel analogy, I agree it's not right for customers to make copies of room keys. But if it were as easy to copy a hotel room key as it is to copy a wifi password, the hotel would not be in a position to describe those keys as adequate security.
Though the analogy is poor because a hotel room is intended to be a private and secure area where I can store valuable item, whereas wifi access is more like the soda dispenser at an American restaurant—other customers are equally inconvenienced whether you paid or not.
If a hotel room uses old fashioned keys, can one customer make a copy of the key and start handing it out on the street to anyone who wants to go into the room? Just because many other people have paid to use it before?
People pay for access to the lounge, at least in part, for the better, less congested, more reliable wifi.