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Largest Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment
Grumpy writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that Aiirnet will begin installing, next month, the largest single Wi-Fi deployment in the nation in the city of Cerritos in Southern California. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city's 8.6-square-mile area. Scores of wireless networking transmitters are being placed atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures to blanket the city. The 51,000 residents of Cerritos have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office and Cable Internet access has not been an option either."
While I don't like feeding the trolls, in this case the guy is right. I posted a message as an AC in response to a threat of electronic attack by another Slashdot user against a site I am affiliated with. In that AC message I noted that attacks against the site would be met with a criminal or civil legal response. Later that day I received a threatening email sent through a Kinkos IP address (and therefore very difficult to track) which was clearly sent in response to my posting. Only someone with access to Slashdot's web logs could have known it was me. I.e., someone employed by VA and hence bound by their privacy policy.
It's clear that AC postings only serve to protect your identity from other Slashdot users, but not much else. And it's clear that VA is not above abusing your privacy nor threatening users who post messages they do not like. I wouldn't be surprised if this posting also initiated a followup email from them...