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rafer: fernand0: Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi - Businessweek telecoscmt: (vía Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi - Businessweek)“The Silicon Valley company has assembled a database of more than 8 million “unsecured” wireless routers, owned by coffee shops, cities, and other entities that have either intentionally made them available to the public, or not gotten around to setting up a password to keep freeloaders out. “There’s a huge network that’s been hiding in plain sight,” says David Fraser, Devicescape’s chief executive officer. “Why not use it?””    Related articles Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi (businessweek.com)

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Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi - Businessweek

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“The Silicon Valley company has assembled a database of more than 8 million “unsecured” wireless routers, owned by coffee shops, cities, and other entities that have either intentionally made them available to the public, or not gotten around to setting up a password to keep freeloaders out. “There’s a huge network that’s been hiding in plain sight,” says David Fraser, Devicescape’s chief executive officer. “Why not use it?””   

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