Looks like Californians can now add yet another law to the books as all Wi-Fi manufactures will now have to either plaster a huge warning sticker on the box or add something in the software setup that Wi-Fi is dangerous. No, it won’t make you lose your fingers or stub your toe or make you anemic, but if you don’t lock up and lock it up good, then someone may do stuff like, you know, view illegal pictures on your connection and it’ll be your door knocked down by the FBI instead of your neighbors.

While I’m for better security and all, requiring companies to slap warnings on the box won’t help. I do this stuff as my day job and I can tell you right now, there are customers that know about this issue, they just don’t how to fix it. Maybe user education or easy setup would be the better thing for these companies to apply.

Don’t worry you war-drivers, I don’t see this having any effect on your free selection of wireless networks. Just take a look at all the smokers to see how well warnings work.

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