At 12:06 PM 5/19/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

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http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe_and_insecure/index.html

By Micah Joel May 18, 2004

Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and

So why am I doing this? In a word, privacy. By making my Internet

Plausible deniability its called. There's also the 802.11b freenet movements, a serious experiment/implementation of free access. (Some perhaps are facetious but some are real.) You could fly a flag of the warchalking symbol. Or put a decal on your window. As evidence of your freenet intent. Practically, you could buy another AP, set it up "secure", and use that for your own access. Not a bad recycling of old .11b-only APs, setting up free hotspots. Interference should be small, even if your parallel, secured AP system (which probably supports more modern cards/protocols/bands) has to drop down to the same .11b that your freenet uses. Its also a bit of a honeypot and sniffer. Its like putting an extension of your phone on the street, limited to free local calls only, but obviously capable of recording all calls. (A rather interesting art/experiment..) Could lead to trouble before the trial though. Like being an anon email endpoint. YMMV. IANAL.