Lachlan Hardy interview
Ian Woolf interviews Lachlan Hardy (the man who got the ball rolling) about freeing the net in Australia with Meraki wireless meshing routers. Download the interview at Here’s Why.
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Wifi worm: When the neighbour’s WLAN router sounds the attack
Not that I want to scare you away from the idea of an open free wireless meshed network (a mouthful), but something to keep in mind, although all still theoretical:
The epidemic model developed by the study’s authors – Hao Hu, Steven Myers, Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani – suggests that several tens of thousands of routers could be infected with a worm within two weeks, most of them even within two days. To avoid the potential distribution of these so far only theoretical flying worms, users should be forced to change the default password of their router’s configuration interface and to enable WPA functionality with passwords which cannot be guessed.
Read on at Heise-Security.
HotNets – “Hot Topics in Networks” research
Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and MIT have published a paper titled “Architecting Citywide Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Access” where they propose creating a cooperative of trusted Wi-Fi access points:
“We argue that citywide ubiquitous Wi-Fi access can be architected at near-zero cost because the network infrastructure is already in place: A majority of city dwellers have a broadband connection and a personal Wi-Fi AP at home.”
How about that?
Wifi detector shirt
Release your inner geek, while discovering Wifi networks:
“At ThinkGeek we’re pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That’s why we hate to have to crack open our laptops just to see if there is any wi-fi internet access about… and keychain wi-fi detectors, we would have to actually remove them from our pockets to look at them. But now thanks to the ingenious ThinkGeek robot monkeys you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt.”
It’s a start
Brand spanking new, this is. Not much around just yet, but we’ll get there. Hang on tight!