fon - social wifi
About two months ago Martin threw the best web related event I’ve been to, TechTalk in Menorca. The event was great, the speakers were great, being outside for an event was great, and Loic threw videos on his own vpod channel for all to see. While there Martin gave out a free ‘La Fonera’ promocode, so I took him up on his offer.
We’ve joined (as a linus) the other ten or so fon hotspots in Brighton. (for free wifi in Brighton we also have Loose Connection, and Pier to Pier)
I might be preaching to the converted here, but the experience of setting up La Fonera, and managing it makes it so attractive to recommend it to my mom/grandmom/etc. I’ve long had a theory (and many others have I’m sure) that security issues should not at any point be handled by non-geeks.
- They don’t care enough, probably due to lack of understanding
- It frustrates them, again, lack of understanding
- It annoys them, all those pop ups about ’something’
- They’re trying to get a job done, not worry about security!
fon is perfect! Yes, you have to trust fon as they handle security for you, and as Stefans Datenbruch and Michael Kebe pointed out by hacking La Fonera: there is potential for risk. They clarify “[it] wasn’t our intention to harm users or FON in any way”. I don’t think they did, hopefully they made fon stronger as it’s another security issue which hopefully end users won’t have to worry about, the experts at fon can.
P.S. you just got to watch their video: Matador El Café.
Tags: Brighton, Fon, Meet ups, Sussex Digital, Wi-fi
September 13th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Hi Dave,
My name is Tania and I work for FON. I am so happy that you really like FON. Now, we are working on a campaign to promote our Community and maybe this has interest for you.
The site is http://www.wouldtheyshare.com and we have launched a National survey in the UK to discover whether Britain is a sharing Nation.
We are also asking British a daily question around sharing and we will give away hundreds of La Fonera+ routers and a trip to Madrid among voters!!!!!
Hope you enjoy with the content!!!!
September 14th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
@Tania: thanks for the tip, I’ve had a look around. It’d be cool to see more fon hotspots around.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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