Secure your data, please: a Seattle Wireless freenet organizer urges folks to treat wireless data as insecure and act accordingly.
InfoWorld tries again in discussing free networking: InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz, this time with a co-author, takes another, slightly longer stab at the issue of free wireless networks and their potential impact on 3G. I don't really see how different this article is from the one that ran in August and generated some annoyance over the term parasitic grid to describe these free networks. As I've noted elsewhere, the phrase, also mentioned in the more recent article, should really be opportunistic, as the researcher who coined the term isn't insinuating a motivation, but rather describing how devices can attach themselves at will to whatever happens to be available ubiquitously.