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Mashable reports on five new spots in New York City offering free WiFi: Astoria Park in Queens, Herbert Von King Park and McCarren Park Field House in Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and Clove Lakes Park in Staten Island. Several parks — Battery Park, Rumsey Playfield, areas of Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem, and Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx — got free WiFi over the summer, part of a plan to bring free WiFi to 26 parks in the five boroughs. Read More
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emailCold Huddled Masses: Free Wifi Arrives Near Statue of Liberty
Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Immortalized in the poem of Emma Lazarus, a poem on the Statue of Liberty pedestal says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” A new kind of free has arrived nearby: free WiFi. New Yorkers can now access WiFi free of charge at Battery Bosque and the ferry landing in Battery Park, which is near Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, and other harbor activities. According to Marketwatch, the launch is part of a five-year digital initiative to provide free WiFi at 26 locations in 20 New York City parks across the five boroughs. Read More
USA Today: Public Wifi Use Raises Hacking Risk
Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
USA Today has an interesting article archived on its site that shares our sentiments: WiFi hotspots that let you hop onto the Internet anywhere you travel leave you wide open to hackers. However, the USA Today piece fails to mention the most important, critical security step of them all, and that is to use a personal VPN. The article shares an example “of a tech systems manager on a lunch break in New York’s Bryant Park, who used his laptop via the city’s free hotspot hookup. The manager logged onto his company’s network to troubleshoot a computer server. An eavesdropper nabbed his username and password. Later, someone used the information to access the server.” Too bad the tech systems manager didn’t use a personal VPN! Read More
Are NYC Parks Taking An ‘Airport Approach’ to Wifi Wireless?
Posted on Monday, February 21st, 2011
Free WiFi is scheduled to arrive at 32 public parks in New York on a temporary basis next year: each user will get three 10-minute sessions per month, and after that pay 99 cents a day to Time Warner and Cablevision. According to this article in The Consumerist, many think “there should be totally free wireless in the parks because this proposed plan takes “the airport approach to WiFi, at the expense of citizens, [privatizing] what should be a public good, like water or playgrounds.” Read More
MADISON SQUARE PARK (NEW YORK)
Posted on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
(Provided by NYCwireless)
We recommend the use of additional measures to ensure the privacy of wireless communications on this network. Like other broadband wireless services, this network does not provide advanced security mechanisms by default. Some options available for additional security include:
Virtual Private Networking – Any VPN client that supports Network Address Translation can be used on this network.
EXCERPTED FROM: NYCWireless Terms and Conditions Read More