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 […]
Great article from Salon about the growing problem of technical illiteracy of judges on the US Supreme Court, and the possible effects that it will have on all of us. Some of the examples that are given are truly shocking. Unfortunately, there really doesn’t seem to be any easy magical solution to this problem that […]
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 […]
After some of the backlash that Comcast has heard regarding their new program to turn all of their customers’ routers into open WiFi points, you’d think that people would be wary of trying to convince others that leaving a portion of their WiFi bandwidth completely open for others to use would be a bad idea. […]
Let’s say that you have a gripe against the police department in your area. A gripe so big that you feel the need to threaten violence against the whole department. What do you do? Well, if you’re a teenage kid in Evansville, Indiana you might consider posting a threat on a public computer forum for […]
Is running an open WiFi network and allowing anyone to connect to it anonymously really that big of a problem? After all, it’s a very neighborly thing to do, share your connection with others who might need it. But of course, there’s the danger that someone will do illegal things (e.g. traffic in child pornography, […]
Child pornography is very bad. It’s illegal, immoral, and it preys on the most vulnerable in our society. People who engage in it get no sympathy at all when they’re caught. What’s worse than child pornography? Maybe being accused of trafficking in it when you’re completely innocent. It’s hard to think about it but it’s […]