Comments on: Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county

Westchester County proposes that all businesses providing wireless access must have firewalls and register.

[AgonizingFury]

Can Anyone Else Read?

I have to wonder after reading some of the comments on this article if anyone other than me can read english? From what I'm reading the law does not require you to secure your Wi-Fi against intruders or free users, it requires that you protect all users of your Wi-Fi from attacks "ouside the LAN" I.E. all other users of the internet. In fact I don't see anywhere in the article where it says that "Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed. From what I'm reading any NAT Enabled Wireless Router already meets these requirements. No additional equipment to buy, no need to identify your users, and no need to even activate buggy WEP Encryption on your Wi-Fi. This bassically makes the law pointless as it is protecting users against the unlikely event that someone will attack a Wi-Fi Network from the internet, instead of the much easier task of connecting to the Wi-Fi network iteself and attacking the users over the LAN. Did anyone else come to the same conclutions as me?

Agonizing Fury