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...PAYMENT NECESSARY A33 What ever happened to the movement to create a network of free wi-fi nodes...
HOME IMPROVEMENT A36 A step-by-step guide to setting up your own secure network...
What the geeks get in return is nothing short of astonishing. If you live in San Francisco and can see San Bruno or any of 16 other nodes in the home-brew San Francisco Local Area Network (SFLAN), you can stick your own wi-fi antenna on your rooftop, angle it in just the right direction and receive a clear, high-speed Internet connection--even from the other side of the city. The cost? Less than $100 if you buy your own parts, which can include an empty Pringles can. After that, you pay nothing. Nada. Zippo. Not a dime...
...looked like two half-moons back to back was scrawled beneath the words "Outside the Box." What did it mean? Was it some bizarre pagan ritual conducted by aficionados of business slogans? Nope--Outside the Box was the name I had assigned on my computer to my wi-fi network. There was only one explanation: I'd been warchalked...
Warchalking began a couple of years ago in London, and has since spread to the sidewalks of Seattle, New York City and San Francisco. Wireless guerrillas walk or drive around a city with wi-fi--enabled laptops, sniffing out wireless networks. They leave hieroglyphs that, to the untrained eye, look like graffiti. The symbols not only alert those in the know to a hot spot but also reveal how fast the network is and whether it requires a password. No password required for me--hence the open-faced moons...