Does an open WiFi signal reduce your 4th Amendment protections?
A federal trial court in Oregon ruled that a suspect’s rights were not violated when police — tipped by a neighbor — accessed his unprotected WiFi network and saw child pornography shared via his iTunes library.
The Failure of Public WiFi
Image by Getty Images via Daylife SSRN-The Failure of Public WiFi by Eric Fraser: This short piece describes the failure of the widespread plans to provide public wireless internet access. It identifies three interrelated types of causes for the near-universal failure of these ambitious plans: regulatory, technical, and economic. As the article points out, WiFi — while […]
Sprint, Clearwire and WiMax
The New York Times writes: A who’s who of technology and telecommunications companies announced Wednesday that it intended to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks. The consortium includes a disparate group of partners: Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire. The partners have put the value of the deal […]
Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T
Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T.
Whose bandwidth is being given away?
NetworkWorld.com Community — Whose bandwidth is being given away? : But it’s on the point of ISP terms of service that I believe Schneier’s case falls. First, he expresses no concern whatsoever about others stealing his bandwidth from his open network — “pay it forward,” he suggests. But bandwidth isn’t the only issue here, at least not from the ISP’s […]
Steal This Wi-Fi
Wired Security Matters — Steal This Wi-Fi: Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the […]
Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.
Mountain View’s Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.: San Francisco’s plan to provide citywide wireless Internet access, which foundered last summer when EarthLink pulled out, is being revived by a Mountain View company that wants to turn the city into a test site for its vision of a low-cost, community-powered system. For what would be the country’s […]
Will Starbucks Wi-Fi soon be free?
Computerworld — Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free: When Starbucks introduced for-pay Wi-Fi in 2002, it seemed like a great deal (especially for business customers who could expense it). But five years later, the model appears old and stale and ready for a complete overhaul. Prediction: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access within one year. I wish. […]
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