Lemain
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I wonder how they know that you have logged onto their network? People with a laptop might be connecting via their GPRS/3G service or working off-line. Isn't it rather dangerous to empower bar staff in cafes to take 'particulars' from customers willy-nilly? More of a pro-crime intiative than an anti-terrorist one, I would think? Do cafes actually take these details down?
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charles_reed
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and few WiFi s are unencrypted - and even the unencrypted ones can and do reject un-logged computer DINs.
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charles_reed
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I was buying 15Mb for the equivalent of £0.15, on a PAYG card, in Croatia last year.
Prices everywhere (except UK) are tumbling on data traffic.
And what about WiMax - though the latest news on it roll-out isn't so good.
By-the-by, the prosecutions to which I referred were in the UK - haven't heard about other countries
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charles_reed
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I was using DeutschTelekom's T-Mobile Simpa card.
3G coverage is limited - round Dubrovnik, Split and Pula, were the only places I found it and the outer islands were a dead loss.
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ThereAndBack
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Do cafes actually take these details down?
They most certainly do - usually by taking a photocopy of the user's passport.
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Metabarca
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You need a password to log on, so it's simple. I've only used in one bar in Italy, and they simply asked me to jot down my details in a little notebook. This is an excellent example of knee-jerk reaction legislation, serving no purpose other than showing 'we're doing something'.
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Lemain
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Thanks. Of course what this is all about (in the UK, IT and elsewhere) is to allow 'authorised' officials to listen to all phone calls you make, emails you send and receive and records of all websites you have visited. That it is happening today shows how far we have gone along the lines of '1984' and just how disinterested is the man in the street who cannot see why he should be concerned about a total erosion of his privacy and freedom.
Very scary stuff, but it's far more scary that nobody is troubled by it! People should be outraged. All the talk about the Chinese and 'human rights' - what about the 'right' to enjoy private liaisons with others without being spied upon by Government?
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Vanilla
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Totally agree Lemain.
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phlim
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Google poor mans wifi
Got to say I didn't have much success with the wok basket...
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Jonny_H
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I've just bought one of these:
Hawking USB WiFi
Haven't used it in anger yet but at home it seems to pick up a lot more than just the laptop wifi does (trouble is most are encrypted!)
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