[A CA Guy]

You will always get around it.

Even lots of homes have open wireless and a bad guy can detect and use the net without entering your home.

I hear in parts of CA you can ride in your car up and down some major streets and maintain Internet contact.

In Fullerton and most libraries across the nation, there is free undetectable wireless Internet.

That is the biggest insecurity when dealing with bad guys IMO.

[philetus]

Starbucks all have free wireless.
Maybe Starbucks is a front.
Do FBI agents eat a better class of pastries?

[AFreeBird]

Even lots of homes have open wireless and a bad guy can detect and use the net without entering your home.

Of course, because people are too stupid to read the docs and properly set up their AP's.

But if the MAC and the IPv6 is registered (and no strawman purchases allowed), then you have a small group of people to target.

Of course, the router/WiFi makers will have to start turning on basic encryption and disabling ESSID broadcast by default. And will also require the user, unlike now, to set up their AP properly, and of course with mandatory on-line registration with the proper fedgov authorities.

Give an inch...

Oh and the next thing to be outlawed; PGP or personal encryption programs. Or if allowed, then keys will have to be registered, with the fedgov having a copy, or a third key, for decrypting your communications.

... take a mile...

[Graybeard58]

I don't have wireless but am considering it. What is the range? Would it be illegal or possible to share a connection with my neighbor?