MuniWireless

Dutch police are telling people to secure their open networks after having trapped a couple of Eastern European men — in different places on different dates — sitting in cars with a laptop using someone’s Internet connection. While it’s not clear that the men were doing nothing more than checking email or looking up a Google map, the police have decided to raise alarm bells a bit more by suggesting that strangers in cars using open connections could *gasp* be…

LenSec, a provider of IP-based video surveillance solutions, and Firetide, Inc., developers of multi-service wireless mesh networks, are partnering to offer municipal video surveillance solutions.LenSec, a provider of IP-based video surveillance solutions, and Firetide, Inc., developers of multi-service wireless mesh networks, are partnering to offer municipal video surveillance solutions.

The companies are going after the U.S. metro safety market where security cameras are a requirement. Their joint offering uses LenSec’s IP video surveillance solutions and cameras in Firetide’s wireless networks.

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Glenn Fleishman has written a long article on how citywide Wi-Fi network operators such as EarthLink and equipment vendors are addressing security issues on citywide networks. Unlike a lot of articles I’ve seen in the mainstream press recently, whose sole purpose is to generate hysteria by printing screaming headlines about insecure networks, Glenn looked carefully into the practices of MetroFi and EarthLink, and examined what they and the equipment vendors are doing to make their networks secure.

Glenn says: In…