Open WiFi or Broken WiFi?
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The document discusses different types of open WiFi networks and their pros and cons in terms of privacy, security, and reliability. It categorizes WiFi networks as either open or broken based on factors such as encryption, authentication, management, and firewalling. The author prefers encrypted and authenticated networks like eduroam that are managed but non-firewalled and open. The goal is to transform systems like eduroam into a distributed authentication model to enable secure and responsible WiFi access anywhere, which is technically possible today.
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- 1. Open WiFi or Broken WiFi? Karri Huhtanen on Google+, @khuhtanen on Twitter, firstname . surname (at) archred . com
- 2. *) COMMON OPEN WIFI CON: NO ENCRYPTION => NO PRIVACY, LESS OR NO SECURITY Open vs. Open WiFi type Pros Cons Broken? (CITY-)WIDE, MANAGED, TRULY OPEN, BUT MANAGED *), BUSINESS MODEL?, NEVER MULTIPROVIDER, NO AND MONITORED FOR GOOD SEEN ONE IMPLEMENTED OPEN AUTHENTICATION, NO SERVICE QUALITY AND ANYWHERE FIREWALLING SECURITY OPEN IF WORKS, CAN BE RANDOM OPEN ACCESS *), CAN BE ALREADY FIXED OR REBOOTED BY ANY POINT WITH DEFAULT COMPROMISED, NO BROKEN USER, NO ORGANISATION SETTINGS MANAGEMENT, SERVICE QUALITY NEEDED (CITY-)WIDE, *), MONOPOLY => PRICING, MANAGED(LIKE), SINGLE QUALITY, NO COMPETITION => CLEAR BUSINESS MODEL FOR UPLINK PROVIDER, NO NO DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS BROKEN THE UPLINK PROVIDER AUTHENTICATION, MODEL?, FIREWALL CAN MAKE FIREWALLING NETWORK USELESS MOBILE WIFI (TRAIN, *), UNRELIABLE UPLINKS, NO AUTHENTICATION WORKS ETC.), NO CANNOT BE MANAGED => PRETTY WELL WITH BROKEN AUTHENTICATION, SERVICE QUALITY, FIREWALL UNRELIABLE UPLINKS STRICT FIREWALLING CAN MAKE NETWORK USELESS *), TEMPORARY, => DEPLOYMENT CONFERENCE WIFI, NO NO AUTHENTICATION WORKS PROBLEMS, SERVICE QUALITY, AUTHENTICATION, NO OPEN PRETTY WELL UPLINK BANDWIDTH, BUSINESS FIREWALLING MODEL?
- 3. And that is why I personally like to use and see encrypted, authenticated, managed non- firewalled, WiFi with open interfaces (such as eduroam) instead of BROKEN WIFI. The challenge and ultimate objective in WiFi community networks for me is to transform eduroam model to open, distributed WiFi authentication system so that someday there will be worldroam to use WiFi securely and responsibly anywhere. The thing is, we can already do this technically...