One of the biggest concerns as the wireless world grows is that of security of data; especially personal data. Many people do what they call war-driving to find an open WiFi network to get their emails while traveling, although this is a common practice, it is against the law. There are hacker groups and IT security conferences that people go to, where the retailer type IT people also show up and discuss these issues. The ramifications of company data falling in the hands of a competitor or snooping opportunist hacker are extremely great. Many of us take several Wireless Online Newsletters and read the white papers on the security issues as well. Indeed this is a problematic issue for companies.

I seem to recall sitting in a Wal-Mart parking lot with a Starbucks next door in a strip center in my motor home and getting the Grocery Store Across the street, the gas station and a Mail Boxes Etc. Indeed I got a couple of others too, which seem to be encoded, but most were completely open, meaning I could begin surfing anytime I had felt like it. Having T-Mobile Service I logged on legally to the system as usual, but I could have easily took up free bandwidth elsewhere that day.