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Open Park Project Gives Free Wi-Fi to Capitol Hill
mindless4210 writes "The Open Park Project has made free Wi-Fi internet access available to anyone around the Supreme Court, Library of Congress, and Capitol Visitor's Center. "It's a hotspot for democracy," said Greg Staple, Open Park's co-founder. The non-profit organization has also received a significant donation of Wi-Fi equipment from Tropos Networks, which it plans to use to establish a mesh of free hotspots across the National Mall."
#1 Capitol Hill -- How's that for Free Speech!
What kind of bandwidth can you get on the WiFi, measured by Libraries of Congress?
First correct reply gets a cookie.
now I can receive SPAM while I am around Supreme Court, Library of Congress, and Capitol Visitor's Center.
On the positive side, I can go in the supreme court sue the spammer.
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
Than the democrats judiciary server :P
Hordes of geeky types hanging around the Mall with their laptops trying to hack into Senator's and each other's PCs.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Now I can anonymously hack into the government while sitting right in front of a government building!
"free Wi-Fi internet access available to anyone around the Supreme Court, Library of Congress, and Capitol Visitor's Center."
That's all we need: A flock of music pirates, child porographers, warez people, movie pirates, huge doom or quake mulitplayers all in one area...
Hmmm actually, it sounds like a party, lets go!
Time to get the nice 10db 802.11 antenna up on the jeep, park nearby and soak up the packets!
1.) Park Car/hangout with laptop, with linux->kismet->dsniff
2.) Soak up logins/passwords, web surfing (pr0n), instant messaging habits of congressmen, aids, lobbyists etc
3.) PROFIT!
The network admin at one of my former jobs was a Nun with a ruler (Sisters of Providence Medical Center). The tightest network operation I've ever seen.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
...the testing grounds for "Carnivore II".
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
now our congress-aliens can sit in the park, with 10 security agents of course and work remotely, that is if they can in fact operate a computer. What is gonna be even more fun is when the RIAA sue's someone using one of those IP's for music pirating :) That might be the ONLY to get congress out of the RIAA's back-pocket, have them bite the hand that is force feeding them like barn raised veal...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
A bunch of geeks with laptops in a park? Never mind the hacking - this sounds like a hotspot to get yourself mugged.