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."

Comments

Yet another Library of Congress joke

[Metallic Matty]

What kind of bandwidth can you get on the WiFi, measured by Libraries of Congress?

First correct reply gets a cookie.

sounds great

[stonebeat.org]

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.

ahh I can see it now

[nizo]

Hordes of geeky types hanging around the Mall with their laptops trying to hack into Senator's and each other's PCs.

Yea!

[scifience]

Now I can anonymously hack into the government while sitting right in front of a government building!

Free Access?

[Anonymous Coward]

"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!

kismet time!

[crstophr]

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!

Re:Security courses

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

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.