A municipal open guest SSID provides no OWE and no other Layer-2 encryption. What threat should policy and design explicitly recognize?
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Short Explanation
Open Wi-Fi without OWE is a postcard—anyone nearby can read the traffic that isn’t wrapped higher up. Call eavesdropping by its name in the threat model and fix it with encryption (OWE or better architectures), not wishful thinking about MAC tricks.
Full Explanation
Unprotected open SSIDs expose 802.11 payloads to passive eavesdropping on the air. OWE (Enhanced Open) or moving guests to encrypted models mitigates that L2 exposure; HTTPS helps some apps but does not remove the WLAN threat class. MAC randomization does not encrypt frames, and dismissing passive sniffing is incorrect.