Liberate For-Pay WiFi (and Get Sued?)
Okay, we post this one as news, not necessarily to recommend it. Our sister blog Engadget is reporting on the WIFI LIBERATOR Toolkit. It is an open source project designed to encourage the undermining of for-pay WiFi service (e.g. t-mobile, Sprint, etc.). Basically you plug in an USB WiFi adapter and connect through the USB adapter. Then, you run the Liberator software and activate Internet Sharing in your System Preferences. Now both you and others can connect to the internet through your computer. The software is based on Ping Tunnel, so I'm guessing it will only work if the network allows you to ping outside IPs. The project's ultimate goal is "eventually to reach a high enough usage and penetration rate that all pay-per-use wireless networks will begin to free their access to everyone." Or you could just go get a sandwich at my favorite free WiFi source: Panera Bread.
[Via Engadget]
[Edit: fixed the software description - Thanks burbu]
