Security Spec Published for Wireless Sharing

Wireless content gets new security spec

One could look at this with a cynical eye and ask "What he heck is this good for?". I kind of see it as a pre-emptive strike against the how easy it will be to share access when wireless is fully deployed. You can be assured that technologies like this will hasten our path to 2 Internets - One that is "paid for by the bit" and one that is wild and free. This statement is telling about the hell that is about to be unleashed:

A wave of competing and incompatible DRM products has hit the market from Microsoft, Apple Computer, Sony, IBM, RealNetworks and others, creating interoperability headaches for consumers.

Comments

[Jim]

I ran into a hotspot at steeles and signet in behind the bank of montreal building in one of the low rise office units Stonehaven group of companies is the name # 202 sit anywhere in front and recieve verey good signal

The killer to me is at the corner of signet and steeles the ultramar gas station has a fatport who would pay when its free a couple of hundred feet