DocAndersen
Intelligence is the reality of technology. What I find interesting right now is the growing reality of what is binge de computing. Edge is just what it means. Companies, schools, governments, and organizations all have a network. That network has a core (base) and users. The users can be at the core. Or they can beat a Starbucks drinking coffee and using company resources. That, the user at the Starbucks is not the edge. The future of what is being called edge computing is reducing the distance between the user and the solution. Let’s talk for a moment about why companies are trying to push their edge further and further away from the core, first. That represents the first “change.”
It is pushing solutions to the edge of the network. Why would we do that? Well first off it allows you to have control. I am not a proponent of security through obscurity; it can be easily tricked. But there is a value proposition to reduce the exposure of time. The longer someone is connected, the more likely their connection can be compromised if they are in a physically secure location. The reality of physical security is it is much harder to trick multiple security guards than it is to hack the Starbucks wifi password. It is so much easier to hack Starbucks. Luis, you do not have to hack Starbucks to catch people. I cannot tell you how many times I have walked through malls and seen 8 or 9 free wifi.
The fastest way to hack a computer is to get it on a wifi network that you control. Everything that moves in and out of that Laptop, cell phone, or tablet is captured by your router. Free wifi can cost you your identity if you are not careful.
**note when using free wifi check, it should always be trusted by verifying situation**
The worst thing that can happen to you lies on the free wifi network if you don’t check it.
Lots of places do have a fish free wifi. Just be wary of free. You get what you pay for!More to come…
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Do you ever use free Wifi when out and about?
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Does your wireless carrier give you free access to their wifi network as part of your cell phone package?
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Does the SSID Free Wifi make you nervous?
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Generally I don’t need to use free wifi. However, I have seen some people use their computers in Onehunga because they get free wifi and probably they cant afford internet at home.
that is another problem the digital divide. That is one is much worse.
I used Wifi for free overseas in 2 hotels, but then I did pay to stay at the hotel…So in a way it was not really free.
If I go away in NZ and stay in accomodation, I may get so called free wifi but then it is not really free.
free hotel wifi is as you pointed out not free wifi the hotel should provide security…
I have my phone wherever I am.
do you use free wifi when you are out and about?
Unfortunately, when outside the country, one has no choice but to use free wifi ?
hopefully one is very very careful!
I am not ?. I use free wifi in terminals and airports and of course the hotels.
hotels should be safe, the airport is the number one hacker spot on earth!
In India, we have so cheap Internet that Free wifi is not even an option.
I remember my visits, the access to cellular internet was great everywhere.
let us assume for the sake of argument that starbucks is trustworthy and not going to capture your passwords, etc. you are still on this unsecured network with all these other systems and devices, any of which could be infected…
from a work perspective that is why VPN is often required. 🙂
But you are of course correct!
tunneling through to starbucks
Is Starbucks the first sign of the end, or the last sign of the old ways?
can’t it be both? although population growth might make coffee unaffordable
*chuckles*
For that answer, you must climb the rest of the mountain.
but then I’ve suspected for sometime that starbucks doesn’t sell coffee so much as a lifestyle…
i would tend towards agreeing, but the lifestyle they are selling is what I don’t understand.
Right there with you, buddy. Right there with you…
But I’m guessing it is a peer pressure thing
We have a Starbucks in our campus in Virginia. Everyone meets there.
both physically and ideologically it is common ground
There was a time when i didn’t view it that way. There were many days in Seattle that I went to Tully’s.
Back in the day Tully’s had better coffee.
I’d prefer to drink broth, but then I’m a freak
broth or tea, or for that matter coffee they are all made the same way. Just a different starting point!
I love a nice seafood broth
I really do love seafood broth! It is a great base for Tom Yum (my all-time favorite soup!)
right there with ya, buddy. right there with ya
I never use free Wifi. The operator gives me some data transfer in the mobile package.
That is a very smart way to operate!
I never use my computer away from home.
That is certainly one way to avoid free wifi traps! 🙂
Free wifi = there’s no such thing as a free lunch. To my mind, people should be careful to lots of free services/goods.
that is really very true – you are right!!!!
Love the photo! Wow. 🙂 And yes free wifi makes me very, very nervous.
i love some of the creative names Hackers use!
Free (today only) wifi
Gotta love being thinking!