Location-based Security for Wireless Apps

developerWorks writes "Studies by industry analysts forecast even greater demand for wireless and mobile devices, creating substantial opportunities for wireless device application and service providers. Faced with an increasingly difficult challenge in raising both average revenue per user (ARPU) and numbers of subscribers, wireless carriers and their partners are developing a host of new products, services, and business models based on data services. This article looks at location-based services, security, and how they boost both service and revenue."

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Never embraced this stuff

[ekrout]

802.11b is a security nightmare. Ask any network administrator worth his salt and he'll tell you the same thing.

Between LEAP and every other 4 letter acronym that's supposed to be more secure, it's hard to even deploy a fairly secure wireless network without nearly shitting one's pants due to fear of such poor security.

Not to mention the fact that regardless of the fact that all the _clients_ are without wires, you still have to put dozens and dozens of the box transmitters all around, in the perfect locations, or else your entire wireless network will be _useless_.