The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released the first version of their open wireless router firmware today that supports the work of the Open Wireless Movement. Called a “hacker alpha version”, this software aims to deal with many of the issues of security and privacy that plague most traditional router vendors today. It was announced today […]
Comcast’s XFINITY Wifi, the program designed to turn your Comcast router into a public hotspot for other Comcast subscribers has been taking a beating lately, as users are beginning to have questions about the system’s usefulness, security, and overall trust of Comcast. Michael Horowitz, writing in ComputerWorld provides a very good and in-depth analysis of […]
Comcast recently announced an aggressive plan to turn your home consumer modem/router into part of large scale nationwide network, and make it a public WiFi hotspot. Called xfinitywifi, the system will rely on a special gateway that Comcast will provide to their customers that will have two separate WiFi signals, one for the private home, […]