is there a Google offer for "wifi hotspots"

Apologies for the vagueness but this occurred months
ago and I didn't copy the details.

While on the road a earlier this year I hooked up
through an 802.11 access point. The splash screen
said something like "this free internet access is
courtesy of Google".

This was at a regular hotel or store somewhere
between Ill. and New York... (apologies again
for the non specificity). In other words, it
wasn't in any of the communities where Google
has set up an area wide network.

I tried searching, via Google of course, for any
info on this type of offer. Alas, way, way, too
many other wifi pages came up for me to even
think of finding it.

Anyone have any further info? Thanks.

Note that this is NOT related to Google's
fiber optic-via-the-sewers system. That one
only applied to a handful of municipalities
where there was, natch, a sewer system. [a]

[a] http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html



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Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, danny
burstein chose the tried and tested strategy of:

> While on the road a earlier this year I hooked up
> through an 802.11 access point. The splash screen
> said something like "this free internet access is
> courtesy of Google".

If one were to set up a trojan access point in order to harvest unencrypted
data, attack unsuspecting users, et cetera, then using Google's name would
probably work on all but the most paranoid of users, because of Google's
propensity for giving stuff away for free in return for as much personal
data as you're willing to give them. Before writing this, if I'd seen an
access point called "Free internet from Google", I probably would have
connected without a second thought!

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Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:02:24 +0100, alexd
<(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Before writing this, if I'd seen an
>>access point called "Free internet from Google", I probably
would have
>>connected without a second thought!
>
> I would too up to the point where it asks for a login and
password. My
> guess(tm) is they're harvesting gmail accounts and
passwords for some
> nefarious reason.
>
How can they harvest gmail pws? That's https encrypted.

In <(E-Mail Removed)> Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>This can be done with ANY web site, including banking, Paypal, eBay,
>Amazon, and such.

And, under the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act"
(COICA), now sneaking its way through COngress, the Feds will be
in on the act...

Well, kind of.

It's an ugly bill, but someone has to pay for Congressional campaigns.

Check out:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09...r-stage-online

and
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter


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"danny burstein" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:i809ci$m51$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In <(E-Mail Removed)> Jeff Liebermann
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>>This can be done with ANY web site, including banking, Paypal, eBay,
>>Amazon, and such.
>
> And, under the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act"
> (COICA), now sneaking its way through COngress, the Feds will be
> in on the act...
>
> Well, kind of.
>
> It's an ugly bill, but someone has to pay for Congressional campaigns.
>
> Check out:
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09...r-stage-online
>
> and
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter
>

Excerpts from email from Peter Eckersley www.eff.org

I'm writing to say thank you to all of you who signed our open letter
against
the Senate's COICA censorship bill. For reference, a copy of the letter is
here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter

I also want to let you know several important things:

1. WE WON

On Monday, when I asked for sign-ons to the letter, the Senate Judiciary
Committee claimed it had heard of no objections to the bill, and was
planning to
move forward with the COICA DNS censorship bill on Wednesday. Last night,
the
Senate put the bill off until after the elections.

2. You guys made the difference. Seriously, if you hadn't all signed the
letter, DNS censorship would be on the floor of the Senate and close to a
done
deal at this point.

3. We haven't won completely. A version of this bill will be back on the
agenda during the "lame duck" session of Congress in November. It's
entirely
possible that EFF will need your help again in fighting it off. To that
end,
I might BCC you on further emails asking for help in campaigning against
this
specific proposal (and only this specific proposal). If you would prefer
that
I not do that, let me know at any time