"HotSpot! You have reached multiple connections. Continue with your default connection? yes/no"
"If no, read the warning."
This idea would definetly work. I think LOL
Yep :) that would clear things up a bit. (But think of the horrific change in design needed.)
Trouble is omething like this kind of defeats the whole concept of wi-fi, which (by both hw and sw design) is intended to connect to the nearest open access point. As i said above: what happens when 'sponsored free wifi' points are as common as mobile phone cells?
Would you want to keep getting a menu and warnings over which cell you could connect to with your phone on every street corner?
That is one reason the wifey key is there in the first place, its a message to the automatically roaming PC/PDA telling it:
"if you dont have the key installed then try the next one on the list of aquired networks as i am private".
Which is why i think the law on this is sketchy at best and needs some thinking over. Isnt it up to the ISPs to make sure their customers (who are in the end responsible) are aware of the risk? In the same way banks are responsible for informing users (equally as responsible) not to share their pin numbers and account info? This isnt so much about right or wrong, rather a question of should it be possible to happen so easily in the first place (unless public access is the intention of the AP administrator).