TransACT wireless hotspots?

Nerdvana were the folk setting up the free wifi hotspots around the place. Started out at Valentinos, and moved to Pancake Palour because of interference. They’ve got one at Deli Marco in Dickson as well.

And in doing so commits quite a major crime.

“It’s a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark”

shiny flu is gonna BURN!

And in doing so commits quite a major crime.

Just a point in passing: If you’re on a Mac, look for a torrent of KisMAC… cracks most Wi-Fi hotspots with ease for free internet 🙂

Thanks for the tips shauno!

Cafe Gaudi in Westfield Woden Plaza has free wireless. You just need the SSID which is ‘cafegaudi’.

When I first came to canberra, I liked to go to that cafe in dickson withthe free wireless, and dranks a couple of coffees in my hour. It was during quiet periods, if it started to get busy I’d feel guilty and clear off 🙂

I saw an article about a year ago of cafes in the US removing wireless access as it encouraging sitting in silence and not buying much coffee (just a bunch of people sitting one per table with a laptop for an hour).

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Just a little off topic but still about wireless. When I was staying in City Plaza apartments in Jan there were numerous wireless networks most of them secure. I was amazed to see the CPS credit union wireless network. Not only were they still broadcasting ssid so we could know they had a wireless network but on top of that they were only secured by WEP not the latest AES or AES2 encryption which I found pretty amazing considering it was a bank. I was going to go down and tell them but didn’t get around to it.
I always use AES2 with a 256bit randomly generated key. Pus I disable broadcast SSID and only allow the MAC address of the PC I want connected to the network. In my travels I must have downloaded GB’s of data from numerous unsecured wireless networks lol. No longer do this in Singapore though because its now been made ilegal