[PLUG] MetroFi News

[Fedor Pikus]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> writes:
>
> John> The city uses MetroFi for everything, up to and including
> John> parking meters. How will parking meters be able to access your
> John> debit card account if the wireless service goes away?
>
> Russell> Parking meters were part of the original pitch, but it turns out
> the
> Russell> City never did use wifi for that.
>
> And it was such a *stupid* idea as well.  After all, WiFi is an unlicensed
> band.  Nothing would prevent me from setting up a few legal peer-to-peer
> wifi
> hotspots on a city block, and then burn traffic on them in such a way that
> the
> meters on the block would have absolutely no access for hours at a time.
> Heck, it doesn't even require a hotspot... I could simply use the cordless
> phone in that frequency range, which does a pretty good job of scrambling
> all
> WiFi transmissions.
>
> This really needs to get filed in the "what were they THINKING?"
> department.
>

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