A New Zealand hacker convicted of obtaining passwords through a virus took his community service seriously, rolling out a community wireless networking project with some free, some fee components: The idea behind the network is that the local loop is free, and a local email server will allow users to receive and send email without direct Internet access. Webcams and other tools could be used over the local network as well. If you want Internet access, you have to help subsidize the project, which cost a few thousand NZ$ to deploy, and for which the bandwidth costs could be as much as a couple thousand NZ$ per month.