I'm thread hijacking but for a good cause!
This may be a good time to note that our new MCN-L searchable archive
seems to be running. I haven't really tested it yet. But anyway, wifi
and public wifi policies come up now and again on MCN-L, and now we have
a reliable way to look up what others on the list have said about them
before (since about May 2006, plus some mystery messages that appear to
be from January 1970--but aren't). Voilà:
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=public+wifi&l=mcn-l%40mcn.edu
("Public Wifi" search)
http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=wifi+policy&l=mcn-l%40mcn.edu
("wifi policy" search)
There's some overlap between the two of course. Or just go to
http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ to type in your own search.
Anyway, Brian, I thought of this because I remember a conversation about
your topic about a year ago, and there were others, so maybe you can
find something useful in there.
Thanks,
Matt
p.s. When I'm sure this is working well I'll change the archives link in
the bottom of MCN-L messages. Hope everyone's having a great time at the
conference!
On 11/19/2014 08:39 PM, Brian Whaley wrote:
I'm the head of IT for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and I'm
researching a request from our marketing department. Currently, our WiFI is
open (of course, we have firewalled the connection to prevent illegal and
questionable activity, but it doesn't require a password or authentication of
any kind at the moment).
So, I'm interested to know how many of you either:
1. Have free public WiFi, and leave internet access open and free (no
"cost,"meaning no authentication is required)
Or
2. Use any sort of authentication for your public WiFI (such as giving an email
address and password for access) to gather marketing data. More specifically,
if any of you use any type of social sign-in to authenticate and gather data.
I have a number of concerns about the security and privacy of any
authentication method, but especially social sign-ins (especially using
Facebook and anything else that uses oauth and/or openid authentication), so I
wanted to find out if any of you are using similar configurations, find out
about your experiences, and ask who you're using and if you had similar
concerns that were quelled by explanations on why it was safe and secure. I've
talked to one company and researched several others, and I haven't heard
satisfactory responses on the security of these authentication methods.
I'd also like to hear your patron's perspective if you use authentication.
What's the bounce rate? Do you receive many complaints about having to
authenticate? How reliable is the system you're using (meaning do you have many
technical issues related to authentication that prevent access?)
I'll be at the MCN conference in Dallas tomorrow and Friday, so if you get
asked about this by someone, that's probably me!
Brian Whaley
Head of IT and AV
Kimbell Art Museum
3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2792
bwha...@kimbellmuseum.org<mailto:bwha...@kimbellmuseum.org>
www.kimbellart.org
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