I'm all for cities getting wired so that it's parks, subway stations and public places are WiFi accessible. I don't mind a small fee like they charge with this Boingo thing at the airport for the service either although I have to admit that the free public wifi you find in many European and Asian cities is very pleasant. The problem is that although Bloomberg did wire some parks with WiFi there are a number of other places where you might get the impression there is free WiFi but actually it just seems like some kind of Trojan Horse designed to give your IPhone gonorrhea.
Every-time I walk through Times Square my IPhone goes haywire with Wifi signals. This isn't a crazy concept as there are thousands or offices and store in the area and they are almost always locked but there are always a couple right on top called something like **FREE PUBLIC WIFI**. I can't figure out exactly what these things truly are but I am sure that clicking on them surely doesn't ever give you WiFi capabilities. You just know these things are tied to some Russian sponsored outfit called The Black Sea somewhere outside of Kazakhstan where you can buy stolen credit cards, trade in gold and find imposter Viagra.
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