I have to say in some cases I would agree with the use of it and some I would agree now over the news in England we have seen Norwich go WiFi all over I feel sorry for their bandwidth, I think their speed is something like 256kb/s which Isn’t that bad considering how many people will be using it.
But why don’t I like it, basically I can’t stop thinking about war driving (hackers) how dangerous can this be if people are checking their bank account on this WiFi, I for one never check bank details online even if its on a wired stand alone computer it opens up so many possibilities, we already have enough trouble as it is with fraud now we will be getting even more with WiFi.
I’ve recently noticed all the free WiFi around the place for example the FON site they give you a free access point and allow you to use all their other access points which are dotted around the map now to me this is silly letting anyone on your network its a different thing having the government control it but having your home security put at risk because of this is stupid, I would never recommend anyone to purchase a free FON WiFi box so DON’T leave this business to the government to sort out then don’t even use theirs who wants them watching over your traffic its just another way to keep tabs on everyone.
So if your in Norwich or going to go their do not do anything sensitive on their network it could end up with you looking accounts passwords the whole lot, now you might of noticed I did support the Gadget Show free WiFi campaign because WiFi has its uses mainly for people on the move but Norwich are allowing residence to use their WiFi which they will give in to doing a little bit of online shopping which equals bad but good for the war drivers which we don’t want so please stay away from using anything to do with money on their free WiFi please.
It opens other things up like carrying your laptop around which can then lead to it being stolen or stupid little things like that which as most people know you cant get rid of information on your computers very easily unless you format your computers hard drive 5 times.
Overall in the end it all comes down to how security conscious you are, I would never recommend wireless unless your using SSH tunnelling with WEP encryption it just has too many security flaws. So please stick to wires.