Mental health warning, indeed

I can't decide whether the organization described in this article from Ireland Online is misguided, stupid, or willfully ignorant, but they appear to be completely serious.

A group of Christians determined to address what they claim are the myths of The Da Vinci Code are to offer the Irish public a mental health warning on the film before it hits cinema screens.

Hope Ireland, made up of Catholics and Protestants, will run an information campaign in a bid to expose author Dan Brown\u2019s best-seller as nothing but cunning fiction.

The group, supported by Church of Ireland and Catholic clergy and members of the secretive Opus Dei organisation, claims The Da Vinci Code does not know where the boundaries between truth and invention lie.

Which part of "fiction" didn't they understand? (From Gary McGath.)

Wireless network security

This New York Times article (soul-sucking registration probably required) and this blog post that refers to it seem to have a wrong view of wireless networking:

There are two problems highlighted here, I think:

• We haven't done enough to make it clear why encrypting your wireless network is important.
• More importantly, wireless routers need to be secure out of the box. Users will not change their behavior unless the barrier for wireless network security is lowered as far as possible

Wireless networking is inherently insecure. I would much rather see wireless routers come out of the box with the wireless network wide open and just exactly as isolated from the wired network as the WAN port is. When I connect to an unsecured wireless network (and I won't allow any other kind in my house) I expect it to be exactly the same as connecting to the wild, wild Internet. I connect through a firewall on my laptop.

I'd go further and make it clear, legally, that an unsecured wireless connection is available for free public use. If you don't want the public to use it, encrypt it. Just as an encrypted network says "No Trespassing", an open network should say "public property -- please don't litter".