Wi-Fi Wag
While you're waiting for Central Park's free wireless network to get up and running, why not come to Harlem for a little unprotected Web surfing? A recent report found the neighborhood is the second least password protected internet spot in the entire metropolitan area.
As part of the study, a group of internet hackers were unleashed on the city armed with maps, laptops, wi-fi cards, antennas and NetStumbler. The team assembled a breakdown by neighborhood of the percentage of wireless networks that are password protected.
Greenwich Village topped the list for security, with more encryption software and other protection in place than anywhere else in the city, while Elmhurst, Queens came in last - 75% of the networks scanned were password free. Harlem came in second to last, with 66 percent of the networks password free.
posted by Rachel Natalie Klein at 7:04 AM
4 Comments:
No password protection = less tech savvy WiFi users.
Harlemwhite
Not that it matters that much, with all the old (read: built from wireless-killing brick and other material) buildings around here. I can barely get a signal in my own bedroom, let alone from any of my neighbors.
schwa, I'm a bit concerned with your relaxed disposition. Every time you log onto a network, you log onto that network with every other computer that has logged on. You should always use encryption; relying on murus interruptus is not a safe way to compute.
Chris, all I can say is *groan*
(In fact, my home network uses WPA2 with a very long and complicated key, and if I was a better man I'd be able to get some kind of innuendo out of that.)
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