(2003-06-30) Unwirer

Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross wrote "Unwirer" together via WebLog. Free Wifi via Mesh Network: *"Then you should be familiar with CALEA," he said, bridling at the condecension in her voice. CALEA was the WireTap law, it required switch-vendors to put snoopware into every hop in the phone network. It was bad enough in and of itself, but it made the noncompliant routing code that was built into the BeOS access-points he had hidden in a bus-locker doubly illegal and hence even harder to lay hands on... The device and services market being built on top of the FreeNet-s is accounting for nearly half the GDP in France. *