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October 02, 2007
Wendy Perrin's airport WiFi hack — Is free good for you?
She wrote that one way to get around having to pay annoying access charges is to "sit right outside an airport club lounge: Wi-Fi signals often glide through the wall."
[via Paul B. Brown and the New York Times]
October 2, 2007 at 12:01 PM | Permalink
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Perrin's two posts on this subject are here and here.
Before you start grabbin' WiFi that people are expected to pay for, though, it could be an idea to make sure local laws don't say you should be thrown in jail for five years for knowingly doing so.
(When the WiFi is unsecured and any ordinary PC or Mac will just connect to it automatically, it is of course somewhat ridiculous to bust people for it. The law in this area is still very young, though, so you shouldn't assume it'll make even as much sense as the law usually does. And it's not as if basic law applies very strongly to many airports these days, anyway - before you know it, some minimum-wage TSA type might be trying to beat a "terrorist hacker" confession out of you.)
Posted by: Daniel Rutter | Oct 5, 2007 4:02:28 AM
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