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I ran a wireless access point finder on the bus on the way home tonight, travelling the 2.2 miles from Bancroft & Telegraph on UC Berkeley’s campus to Market St. & Stanford Ave. in Emeryville/Oakland near my place. It located 175 access points in those two miles. 61 of the APs (35%) used no encryption. […]

Five years ago today, on Dec. 12, 2000, I created an account with the SETI@Home project and signed up my computer(s) to help analyze radio signals from the Aricebo telescope in search of signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. SETI@Home, while not the first volunteer distributed computing (DC) project, is certainly the most […]