Nothing like private institutions retracting promises at the last minute. On a side bar, is there more documentation regarding the building of these balloons? May make for an interesting hack-a-day

Posted at 6:44 pm on Aug 10th, 2008 by Droose

Balloon was purchased not built, equipment in an igloo cooler. Rick did NOt “drive” the balloon anywhere. It scanned the terrain and was within range of the strip. the balloon was stationary and anchored when this was done. Cops showed up just after it was pulled down and drove through the lot (lol). Apparently naming this a “warballon” event scared the straights in upper management and they pulled it – event organizers were actually pretty helpful…

Posted at 12:10 am on Aug 11th, 2008 by BLKMGK

The only thing is, a heck of a lot of these unsecured wireless networks might be MEANT to be unsecured (i.e. free wifi hotspots, or private wifi hotspots with web login access). I would imagine the 1/3 number is an insane overestimate, given that there’s probably a lot of hotels and other places with free wifi around there.

Posted at 11:01 am on Aug 11th, 2008 by threepointone

I agree with “threepointone”, everyone from safeway to most hotels have web login and I doubt that was taken into account during the acquisition of these statistics.
1/3 is a ridiculously high number, at least, I would imagine it is.

Posted at 6:33 pm on Aug 11th, 2008 by Noah

>Is there more documentation regarding the building of
>these balloons? May make for an interesting hack-a-day

See http://www.geocities.com/Almost_There_Weather_Balloon/

and http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/20/almost-there-near-space-project/

or just Google “Near Space”.

Good Luck!
Ken_S.

Posted at 7:14 pm on Aug 11th, 2008 by Almost_There

3,4 They might as well be wide open… it takes all of 5 minutes to get past a web login. WPA is a much better solution.

Posted at 8:09 am on Aug 15th, 2008 by mark429