Global Guerrillas on anonymous wifi. I keep an eye on this site, some of the items are a stretch. But open access points, discussed in this entry, can be used for anonymous VoIP calls. Who the hell would use a wok as an antenna though? Pringles can maybe - wok no...
posted by mt at 08:10

Famed Sci-Fi author Bruce Sterling says the Internet is going to hell in a handbasket.

Keynoting a morning session of Gartner's 10th Annual IT Security Summit here, Sterling said, "This is the birth of a genuine, no kidding, for-profit, electronic, multi-national criminal world. The global criminal world of oil, narcotics and guns now has broadband."

And, according to Sterling, they are fully utilizing the technology.

"These are not all old-school hackers. This is organized crime activity. They are profit driven," he said. "These are crooks. The crooks that in the future that are going to elbow the hobbyist kids aside and settle in for a nice, long vampire slurp from our e-commerce."

I couldn't help but think of the DoS attacks against popular Internet gaming sites during the 2003 football season. It was traced back to the Russian mob - legit attacks demanding money for protection.
posted by mt at 10:04