Speaker Núñez's Wi-Fi User Protection Bill Passes Assembly

The US Assembly today passed a bill requiring manufacturers to put little stickers on their Wifi routers warning user's their data may be insecure. Well it doesn't have to be a little sticker, but manufacturers are required to warn customers of the risks of unsecured Wifi. In my mind this is about as useful as putting a warning sticker on a car that says "caution, you may crash."

How about instead educating users as to how they can take steps to protecting themselves online, regardless of how they got there? This bill is clearly not written by anyone aware of how networks and wireless actually works. If he did know that all you needed to do to defeat most wireless security mechanisms was run this Speaker Núñez's may have made this more useful. If you submit your information without encryption it can be stolen. Whether its done with a packet sniffer on a wireless network, or a packet sniffer on a wired network, its still just packet sniffing unencrypted data. The fact its wireless just makes it a little easier.