Your wifi communications are not as secure as you may think. Others can listen to your data, sometimes as easily as to a radio broadcast!

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Wireless Internet Security: What can I do to protect myself on open wifi networks? Even though wireless networks can be hacked, you can protect yourself and have a safe Internet experience.

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Finally, after al that time with the cell phone providers painting the United State landscape with towers the United State Department of Natural Resources and the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has finally reaches a bartering agreement with AT&T, Alltel, Sprint, and Verizon. According to Associated Press

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This t-shirt is actually no normal t-shirt. Its a “Wi-Fi Detector Shirt” which actually displays the signal from 802.11b/g with glowing bars on the front. It doesn’t actually check for open networks which would make this a killer product…but its still pretty cool in a geek way! (PopWireless: While we have not tested it it sure has cool value! We wonder if it would detect other RF and not just 2.4 gig? Would it work as a cellular detector?)

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Yet, for many living in the inland empire’s capital city, the free service isn’t a bonus, it’s a burden. The new network adds even more sources of interference to the already crowded wireless spectrum. (PopWireless: Wired Magazine’s article on wi-fi over crowding and interference. Amateur Radio is affected by this as well since wi-fi channels 1 through 4 are allocated to the Amateur Service a fact I think the article missed. DIGG this. It’s an important topic.)

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Netstumbler thinks that current 802.11N wifi products should be avoided since there is no guarantee the products will be backward compatible when the N standard is finally approved. Read the story at the original link for more information. Caveat emptor.

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Click to Read this Fox News Story: A Michigan man was arrested and charged with a felony by local police after officers responded to a complaint of a strange man parked in front of a coffee shop every day for a week at lunch time. This article should be read by everyone that uses wireless Internet on a regular basis. Had this man gone in the coffee shop the owner would have allowed him to use the free Wi-Fi access. Local law enforcement made the decision to charge the man with a Michigan law that forbids illegal access to networks including free ones.