Marriott wifi blocking

Sat Oct 4 17:35:54 UTC 2014

On 10/04/2014 10:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> Majdi makes an excellent point, but I want to clarify it, so no one misses
> the important subtext:
>
> It is OK for an enterprise wifi system to make this sort of attack *on rogue
> APs which are trying to pretend to be part of it (same ESSID).
>
> It is NOT OK for an enterprise wifi system to make this sort of attack
> on APs which *are not trying to pretend to be part of it* (we'll call this
> The Marriott Attack from now on, right?)
>
> Rogue AP prevention is a *useful* feature in enterprise wifi systems...
> but *that isn't what Marriott was doing*.
>

So I work in a small office in a building that has many "enterprise" 
wifi's I can see
whether I like it or not. What if one of them decided that our wifi was 
"rogue" and
started trying to stamp it out?

Mike, this seems like it might be a universally bad idea...