Re: Opera Mini 4 versus iphone Safari

"Mishagam" <noemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> ZnU wrote:
>> In article <1182790961.327116.244860@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  asjbiotek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>> point me to a study that says penetration of free  wifi for the whole
>>> of manhattan is 60% because i very very much doubt that. I live next
>>> to manhattan and travel there for business and no way is there free
>>> wifi in such numbers.
>>
>> Meh. I'm on the Upper West Side, and I can spot two open access points 
>> from by bedroom right now, and I've seen as many as six. Lots of home 
>> users run open wireless, and many areas of Manhattan are residential 
>> space above commercial space, so it's pretty easy to find a signal. I 
>> suppose I'm exaggerating a little by saying there will be one on 60% of

>> street corners, but there probably will be one within 200 ft. walking 
>> distance in a lot of neighborhoods. Walk down residential side streets
in 
>> more affluent neighborhoods, and there might be a dozen or more on a 
>> block.
> Can't we expect that as time p***** more and more users will understand 
> how dangerous is (for their privacy) to have unprotected home wireless 
> networks and they will start protecting them - so any plan that relies
on 
> unprotected personal wireless networks will fail?
> Isn't it easy to get access to computers on home network if you have 
> unprotected wireless access?
> It will only work in cities like San Francisco that have city wide wifi 
> (as I heard).

I routinely grab everything over the WiFi at Panera.  It's almost too
easy, 
you'd be suprised at the personal information people sending over
unencrypted wifi networks.