Device Delivers Free Broadband Internet
According to WiGLE, the Wireless Geographic Logging Engine, over 40% of the wireless networks in their database do not have WEP encryption. This means that there is a very large supply of “free” Internet bandwidth floating about among the radio waves.
Mark Hoekstra of Geek Technique thought that it was a real shame all that free bandwidth was going to waste so he built the little jewel on the right and called it Slurpr. Essentially, Slurpr looks for open (and potentially not so open) wireless networks and connects to them. It then takes all of those relatively small (up to 54 MBPS) Internet connections and then aggregates them together into one massive Internet link!
Not, don’t get me wrong. I’m not necessarily advocating that you actually do this (but, man would it ever be cool to try). The website is more than aware of the potential legal implications. But, they are planning to make it available in the near future.
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One Response to “Device Delivers Free Broadband Internet”
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Tech Coach Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 ama wireless network card who is in the vicinity. You may as well run a patch cable out your front door and put up a big neon sign that says, “Free Network and Internet Access”! All I can say is that you had better hope that nobody nearby is running Slurpr. It is terrifying when you realize that over 40% of the wireless networks deployed today are set up in this manner. There are four primary areas of weakness that are present in this design. These areas are:
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Tech Coach Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 ama wireless network card who is in the vicinity. You may as well run a patch cable out your front door and put up a big neon sign that says, “Free Network and Internet Access”! All I can say is that you had better hope that nobody nearby is running Slurpr. It is terrifying when you realize that over 40% of the wireless networks deployed today are set up in this manner. There are four primary areas of weakness that are present in this design. These areas are:
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Phorensic Says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:35 pmWow all I have to say is that monstrosity looks like it could give you some serious bandwidth! Awesome posting. I want one!
