Marking AP's/Networks as public access.
Perhaps this has been covered somewhere by someone though I haven't been able to find anything on it. It seems to me that with the legal issues surrounding borrowing someones open access point for internet access (checking mail, etc.) there should be some standard way of declaring an AP intentionally open for public access. Perhaps with some standardized SSID naming scheme, or perhaps something needs to be proposed to IEEE, etc. An online site documenting such AP's is inherently useless for those that don't go out with pre-planned destinations.
Myself and many I know have our AP's (at home and work) outside our "internal networks" and setup bandwidth shaping, port 25 blocking, etc. Some of us even run hotspot software hijacking http traffic until people create free hotspot accounts (on the fly). We don't mind people leeching our excess bandwidth and a unified way of alerting war-drivers... hey I'm open and on purpose would be nice.
Thoughts, suggestions, links to people that have already addressed this in length?
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