One of the "ideas" that have been floated in national cybersecurity forums is to make open-access public wifi illegal. All hotspot providers would be required to capture a valid traceable ID before accessing an open wifi connection. Private wifi owners would be required to password-protect their connections, and would be criminally liable if someone used their router to do "something bad."
For justification, the usual suspects are invoked to cause fear and loathing: all of the "bad people" that we have declared "war" on. But it also conveniently puts the wireless companies back in the driver's seat. Funny how that works, eh?
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