I'm wondering if it would be prudent for us to use a copyrighted name as part of any SSID we setup. Then if anyone else uses the same name we can go after them under copyright violation. Or we look at getting our current SSIDs copyrighted. We use Wildcat Wireless as our primary SSID but Wildcat is not copyrighted. If we use Penn College Wireless, Penn College is copyrighted and no one but us can use that name. And we have the ubiquitous "guest" SSID which gives people no indication that it is even ours. Are domain names protected? If we used wildcats.pct.edu or guest.pct.edu would we be able to tell anyone who might put up their own AP and use xxxxxx.pct.edu that they have to take it down?
Mike Cunningham VP of Information Technology Services/CIO Pennsylvania College of Technology -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:47 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] latest from FCC on de-authing Mi-Fi On Wed Feb 11 2015 09:22:55 CST, Bob Brown <bbr...@nww.com> wrote: > > Thought my recent interview with head of wireless for Partners > Healthcare might be of interest re: the FCC de-authing discussion > > http://www.networkworld.com/article/2881540/careers/how-not-to-get-sla > mmed-by-the-fcc-for-wi-fi-blocking.html One thing that I haven't seen mentioned (or it's just as likely that I missed it) is the situation where a user's AP is configured to broadcast the same network name as one of our SSIDs. Is there justification to use deauth as a protective measure in those cases? -- Julian Y. Koh Acting Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) 2001 Sheridan Road #G-166 Evanston, IL 60208 847-467-5780 NUIT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key:<http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
