On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:56:45 GMT, "Steve Berry" <reachnet@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Think this is about Joe Bloggs in the street ? Nahh....

It's about Joe Coffee browsing at hot spots and coffee shops. Google
wi-fi secure access currently only works at two hot spots in the San
Francisco Bay area. Kapp's Pizza Bar and Grill and one at Airborne
Gymnastics. I note that you're in UK. Wait your turn.

>Methinks what Google are trying to do is offer a facility to the Corps to
>allow their wireless workers to Net connect encrypted. Mass-market data
>collection exercise.

Amazing. Could you explain how they might do that with a local VPN
client and server at a remote hot spot? I haven't seen the server end
but methinks it would be difficult without a rather elaborate data
collector at the hot spot end.

>1-How long will it be before they start charging for it (assuming it's
>succesful enough) ??

The client will probably remain free. The server will probably either
cost money, or throw advertising in your face to pay the bills. I'm
guessing, but I would like to point out that almost all of the beta
stuff offered by Google on the client side has been free and remains
free.

>2-How long will it be before the FBI/US Govt want to have access to any
>encypted transmitted data.

They already have access. The traffic between the client and the
wi-fi hot spot will be encrypted by the VPN. The traffic between the
hot spot and the ISP is not and could be sniffed by law enforcement
agencies.

>3-Why the hell should I give Google access to my Net traffic just so they
>can do stats monitoring etc... ?

Why not? If you're doing porno downloads or spamming at a wireless
hot spot, I'm sure it might induce you to clean up your act.

>Call this innovation ? More like a Corp control exercise. Screw em'...

I don't think so, but you're entitled to your paranoia. Methinks you
might be over-reacting.


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