banning mandating laptops becoming useless.... Although I wholeheartedly support promoting secure standards and reducing the chance of people making poor choices through ignorance, I also recognize that change often creates new problems. That said, many of the concerns voiced here are verging on hogwash
Only new devices can be affected by such moves - old laptops will still work with old routers/access points, and a new network adapter can always be plugged in if needed. I doubt the computer thought police will search for miscreants clinging to WEP
and since WEP is virtually useless, why not just turn off encryption... (or is that banned too?)
I also find it unreasonable that anyone's likely to sit outside my apartment for days at a time waiting for me to enter an important password. It strikes me that this whole question is of far more significance to business than Joe Public, and if they're still using 5 year old laptops with wireless adapters that only support WEP, they've probably got more urgent concerns to address than WiFi security
and I do recognize the importance of preventing someone using my internet and letting me take the rap for their nefarious deeds
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