activistPnkTo fight back against chronic forced smartphone upgrades, we need a tool to track public access points that impose new phones
To fight back against chronic forced smartphone upgrades, we need a tool to track public access points that impose new phones - SLRPNK
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30993218 [https://slrpnk.net/post/30993218] > Copious access points are deployed by naïve admins who are oblivious to the fact that not everyone runs the latest gear. The shitty practice [https://slrpnk.net/post/28121407] of pushing wi-fi in an arbitrarily exclusive way needs pushback. The first step is exposure. We need to enumerate the various ways demographics of people are being excluded and collect a DB on it. > > The wi-fi protocol is the first point of failure. E.g. 802.11b vs 802.11a/g/n… All new hardware is backwards compatible with older protocols. When an 802.11b device cannot see a signal, it’s because some asshat proactively disabled 802.11b. > > Most exclusivity occurs with shitty captive portals. There are countless ways to fuckup a website to make it exclusive. E.g. > - to impose SSL, which inherently imposes recent certs and CAs that exclude old devices. It’s essentially rock stupid when the captive portal is nothing more than a button that says “I accept the ToS”. > - to impose JavaScript, which encapsulates a whole industry of poorly trained people who have no concept of stability of standards and interoperability. > - to impose SMS confirmation, which makes the ignorant assumption that every single user has a mobile phone, that they carry it with them, and that they are willing to share their number willy nilly. > > ### 🌱environmental impact🚮 > > The brain dead practice of deploying public Internet access using needlessly exclusive tech is a form of forced obsolscence. It’s one of the factors that pushes people to throw away working devices in order to overcome these ecocidal Internet access deployments. > > ### 🔧the fix💾 > > An app that records SSIDs, their location, and all the detectable exclusivity characteristics. It should also take human input with notes to record exclusivity that is not auto-detectable. Ideally the local DB would sync with a central DB. It should also be possible to extract a GPX file for a given region which could then be imported into OSMand or Organic Maps. >
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