Apparently Riana is hoping to watch the demolition of the cooling tower of a decommissioned nuclear power plant in Washington state Oregon tomorrow morning.
When I read that traffic will be prohibited on the nearby freeway during the demolition, my first thought was: "What, are they afraid that terrorists will try to stop them from blowing up the nuclear power plant?"
My first time making the front page of a newspaper: my testimony at the Local Agency Formation Commission on Friday was the subject of a story featured on the front page of the San Francisco Examiner (where it bore the headline "S.F. Wi-Fi could violate users' privacy, foes say").
The article mentions that I discussed how laptops can be tracked using their MAC addresses; therefore, a citywide wi-fi network would allow its operator to track individuals' physical movements around the city. (This is a larger concern than a patchwork of independently-operated wi-fi networks, whose operators don't co-operate to share data with one another.) However, the most recent version of the Google-Earthlink city-wide wi-fi proposal seems to require users to log in, which has the same problem even if the network didn't keep track of MAC addresses (and conversely, MAC addresses allow tracking of individual users even if they don't have to log in -- which is why in either case, privacy would be protected better if the network had limitations on the retention of data about its users).
ACLU, EPIC, and EFF's letter to the city in April has more detail about these concerns.
Contact: Seth David Schoen
