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Enumerating some possibilities, here are things the hotel can do:

* Deauth jam nothing

* Deauth jam "evil twin" access points only

* Deauth jam above plus access points "similar" to the official wifi (have fun trying to prevent homoglyph attacks)

* Deauth jam all unofficial unencrypted access points (preventing an attack from monitoring probe requests and spinning up matching fake APs on the fly) perhaps with a whitelist of "known" nearby wireless networks to leave alone

* Deauth jam all unofficial WiFi (what they want to do)

There's not really much difference from a security standpoint between those last two, though I suppose someone could set up an encrypted rouge network like "FreeWifi - password is swordfish" and/or make flyers for their evil network.

Basically, I could empathize with them arguing to jam any open wireless networks, but jamming encrypted wireless networks in the name of security is a major stretch.




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