Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county | CNET News.com By Barb BowmanNovember 5, 2005Misc. Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county | CNET News.com This is amazing. Outlawing unsecured wireless by requiring a hardware or software firewall. Encryption appears not to matter. Thats’ plain wrong.