What's with all this "war" business? I understand how ISPs might prefer to view the spread of this type of information this way, and how the media would be all too happy to cash in on and help us pick a fight with ISPs, but it sure obscures the value, intent, and grass-roots cooperative nature of the community networking movement, or at least a good part of it.
--- Dave Holmes-Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > silicon.com today had a story on warchalking: read > on, girls and boys: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > 'Warchalking': All wireless workers will be doing it > > > But what is it? > > London's mobile workforce may soon be about to add > sticks of chalk to their > high-tech arsenal of PDAs, mobiles and laptops. > Workers are being encouraged to adopt a system of > 'Warchalking' which > involves marking the location of Wi-Fi, or wireless > networking, nodes. > > When a node within a building is discovered users > are being encouraged to > mark the pavement outside with one of three symbols > - two back-to-back > semicircles indicating an open node, a circle > indicating a closed node and a > circle around a 'W' indicating a WEP (Wireless > Equivalent Protocol). > Trials of the system have already been carried out, > with workers > congregating around chalk marks in London's Bedford > Square to work on their > laptops out of doors. > According to reports, some system administrators > have understandably > expressed concern about these guerrilla tactics > which could expose and > exploit their networks. > However, the organiser of the scheme, Matt Jones, > claims the system > administrators benefit from the practice as other > people are bringing the > openness of their networks to their attention. > 'Warchalking' is based on a similar system practised > by tramps during the US > depression who marked the outsides of buildings > where they had been > successful in finding food or shelter. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Original article can be found at > http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB > =REQINT1=54216 > Cheers, > -- dhk > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing > <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
