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Just how big a threat does public WiFi pose to your security?

Rick Coca of the Daily News had a story on the cover today concerning an FBI warning about hackers who set up their own WiFi router with the same SSID name as the public WiFi router you wish to connect...

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Starbucks’ free AT&T Wi-Fi: works with Linux, not so much with OpenBSD

I hooked up my Starbucks card with AT&T today to draw on the free Wi-Fi now available at the coffee giant, and was pleasantly surprised to have good broadband speed in Puppy Linux 2.13 on the $15...

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Public Wi-Fi is problematic if you value your passwords and privacy

I’ve spent the early afternoon at Starbucks putting this week’s print column together, and I did type in a few logins and passwords that weren’t over encrypted connections. Bad idea. Banking Web sites...

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D-Link DWL-122 — 802.11b USB Wi-Fi for Linux and OpenBSD

I just ran across this link from Phoronix about an oldish 802.11b USB Wi-Fi adapter, a D-Link DWL-122, that reportedly works great in both Linux (with open-source drivers) and OpenBSD. I took notice...

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