“Wireless
networks using the 802.11b, or Wi-Fi (short for wireless
fidelity), standard have popped up in thousands of places around
the globe, in free and open community networks and in fee-based
commercial services in coffee bars, airports and hotels.
Travelers increasingly document their attempts to find free
community access points as well as their hobolike hitchhiking on
the networks of others — a practice that is marginally legal, if
at all.” Glenn Fleishman, The New York
Times, July 11, 2002
