Andy Oram writes that the Schlotzsky's Deli announcement of free WiFi at their delis represents a Shift in the image of open Wi-Fi access He's absolutely right. We've moaned here before about the mainstream media's obsession with portraying WiFi as some demon hacker's paradise. We need a few more of these stories about people deliberately providing free access to provide some balance.

And by the way in case anyone hasn't worked it out yet, Warchalking is actually a huge geek joke and not something that happens much at all (at all) in the wild or anything to be scared of! [from: JB Wifi]


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