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It’s been a loooong time…

The app is just a map, the WiFi connection uses a standard SSID and login portal.

You’re right, I was just going on the post saying “With the WiFi4EU app, you can access…”, implying that you need the app to access it. But on their webpage it spells it out more clearly:

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

Not only are they monitoring everything you view in their network, but you have to install their app on your device.

Good to see Exodus giving it a pass, but if it’s not open source it’s still something to be wary of. I literally can’t think of any good reason for the app to be required, a splash page that you log in to is more than sufficient.

Yay, the app isn’t required!

On connecting to the free Wi-Fi network for the first time, you will be redirected to a secure login page (a captive portal). You will be able to sign in with a simple click-to-connect functionality.

It looks daft now with a little hindsight, but we’re kind of still in the foresight stage for the overall life of IPv6.

Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He’s fully aware that it wasn’t suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn’t matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.

All of this is precluded by you using a browser that is authorised and approved by the government.

It doesn’t have to be, but the businesses making it claim it needs to be.

Fuck off with your device based verification system. That’s just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.

Instead of scanning a face or ID and uploading it to a service, we’re expected to run unverified closed source code on the device we carry everywhere in our pockets?!

I don’t think it’s so much one less thing to worry about, rather it gives them some way to argue that they shouldn’t be shut down as the result of any lawsuit. But that doesn’t mean such an argument would be successful.

There was a link at the bottom of the OP article: https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean

The researchers are hoping that the tiny cyborg could allow the military to infiltrate hard-to-access space or be used in search and rescue missions to find survivors in natural disasters, according to a research paper.

In other words the researchers are clawing at reasons to justify their research. The Chinese military aren’t looking into this, following commands 9 out of 10 times isn’t reliable enough to even start development.

This is about as strategically useful as a bluetooh controlled robo-roach.