Why is Visual BASIC trying to preserve the case-sensitivity? If you think as you said that it is only to please the eye, think again.
The BASIC language was to introduce people to programming and is a language that try to remove rules to allow faster results (faster != better all the time...).
If they preserve case it probably is because people requested it and if people requested it probably has something to do more the need to have consistency.
In english, why do we put name with a Capital in front? Or why to sentence required to be uppercase? Because case, like a letter create different pattern which may be easily recognized by the brain and treated in a different way.
I wonder why people are not already working on solving such issue. With all the hotsports out there it is quite easy to set up a fake one even without connection to the network and then simply record username/password and re-use them.
What is needed is some kind of cert inside the beacon so that the PC Client can validate that the AP he is associated with contain a valid cert signed with the proper CA.
And only associate with that AP after a key verification. This would work like SSL on the browser and would not require one cert per station.
At the moment this can be done without changing too much the AP but it would require still to have a cert signed inside the AP you want and then modify the client or run a new client which after association will get the AP cert and if not de-associate.
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Why is Visual BASIC trying to preserve the case-sensitivity? If you think as you said that it is only to please the eye, think again.
The BASIC language was to introduce people to programming and is a language that try to remove rules to allow faster results (faster != better all the time...).
If they preserve case it probably is because people requested it and if people requested it probably has something to do more the need to have consistency.
In english, why do we put name with a Capital in front? Or why to sentence required to be uppercase? Because case, like a letter create different pattern which may be easily recognized by the brain and treated in a different way.
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I wonder why people are not already working on solving such issue. With all the hotsports out there it is quite easy to set up a fake one even without connection to the network and then simply record username/password and re-use them.
What is needed is some kind of cert inside the beacon so that the PC Client can validate that the AP he is associated with contain a valid cert signed with the proper CA.
And only associate with that AP after a key verification. This would work like SSL on the browser and would not require one cert per station.
At the moment this can be done without changing too much the AP but it would require still to have a cert signed inside the AP you want and then modify the client or run a new client which after association will get the AP cert and if not de-associate.