Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi - Businessweek
(vía Devicescape: Profiting From Other People’s Wi-Fi - Businessweek)
“The Silicon Valley company has assembled a database of more than 8 million “unsecured” wireless routers, owned by coffee shops, cities, and other entities that have either intentionally made them available to the public, or not gotten around to setting up a password to keep freeloaders out. “There’s a huge network that’s been hiding in plain sight,” says David Fraser, Devicescape’s chief executive officer. “Why not use it?””
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So are there limits to the network approach? The famous “Dunbar’s number” suggests that people have the cognitive capacity to keep about 150 relationships in their heads. Hoffman thinks that concept is outdated. “One hundred and fifty relationships might be the limit for our short-term memory — our RAM, if you will — but under that lies a hard drive that has much more capacity.”
