On 08/18/2011 02:27 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hello all, > > This is a pre-announcement for the next Haifux talk on Monday, August > 29th, which is NOT this coming Monday, when we will gather to hear > Amir Sagie of the Arig project ( אמיר שגיא מפרוייקט אריג) > > Abstract: > Want to build your own Telco? you'll probable need mesh power. Avoid > past mistakes by learning about the history of mesh networks, hear how > the first wi-fi router was liberated & be sure to checkout what we're > doing in project Arig (אריג), here in Israel! > > Be sure to attend the router emancipation party afterwords: bring your > wi-fi router & wash away all it's sins by flashing it with a Foss OS > such as OpenWRT. complete redemption guaranteed. > > See also http://arig.org.il > I have an already liberated router with OpenWRT and, of course, a tinkerer such as me would not pass the opportunity. A few comments though:
Providing a service that tempts to connect and use and immediately exposes its users' data to anyone listening is worse than providing no service at all. I suggest using WPA2-PSK with an easy key (*) or WPA2-EAP with a centralized authentication server over the Internet, since the connection infrastructure is already there. Legally-wise: Providing free Internet access is, AFAIK, something that requires a license. The sad story of "Surfree" comest to mind. Moreover,a body providing internet access via devices that are not in its posession, without any agreement with the equipment owner is an interesting legal precedent. Such projects usually look good as far as nothing bad happens, but once someone commits something unlawful using this connection, who will be the person responsible? The equipment owner does not have any logs of connection use and therefore responsible for the outbound nastiness. Notice that every time you connect to a free wifi network, run by an ISP, in Ben-Gurion airport or anywhere else, you have to agree to the blanket sheet of terms of service. The "node map" page of the wiki is empty. Does that mean that I'm the first one to ever consider making one? Again, it is not clear what such map should include. GPS coordinates and street addresses, including floors, of nodes? (*) AFAIK, again. I believe that the key exchange in CCMP is algorithmically unrelated to the PSK as seeding data, but I don't know for sure. I suggest we summon Orr, our resident crypto wizard? -- MichaelV _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux