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by blueskin_ 4106 days ago
The cheap (flawed, but better than nothing) way is to have the SSID be something like "Businessname Public (Password: iev8eiM9)" or similar, or just have it on a blackboard inside, which has the bonus of stopping people outside using it so easily.

The whole standard it a mess; it should have opportunistic encryption on open networks, then clients can display a warning if this doesn't happen for whatever reason ("Anything you send or receive over this network may be readable by others" or similar).