Free WiFI at Panera Bread on Amherst St, Nashua

[Travis Roy]

> What does that solve?  If someone goes to an internet cafe with the
> intention of doing ill, assuming they're not complete imbeciles, they
> will obviously provide false information.  They'll also probably
> change their MAC address.  That leaves you with nothing of value.
> Except, perhaps, a visual of the perp, if there happen to be security
> tapes from that time available...

You could require that once you setup the account it needs to be 
verified. This is done by having somebody behind the counter review your 
information in the computer and checking it against a drivers license.

And yes, somebody could get a bogus ID.

Somebody could also drive down the street and use an open AP from some 
moron that used the default settings linksys gave them.

With the way people are sue happy these days I'm just thinking about 
what's best for the place of business to cover their ass.

I'm assuming that they would get some kind of slack if they tried to 
reasonably account for who is on their network, rather then just leaving 
it wide open for everybody on the planet.

Kind of like how most insurance companies will pay for your car if it 
gets stolen, that is, if you leave it locked with the windows rolled up. 
They won't do the same if you leave it unlocked with the windows rolled 
down and the keys sitting in the ignition.

Would it be nice if everybody could trust everybody else, sure, but like 
it or not most of us don't live in a world like that.. so because of 
that I keep my doors lock. I do only use mac authentication on my AP (no 
WEP) but that seems to be enough to keep people off my access point (for 
now anyway).