Riding on Acela from Penn Station in New York to Boston, I left iStumbler running on my MacBook Pro and observed the various wifi networks it saw.

About a third of them seemed to be using default SSIDs like “NETGEAR”, “linksys” and variations on “Belkin”, as well as default Apple Airport SSIDs.

About a third of them seemed to be open, requiring no WEP or WPA identification. I can’t say whether they would have had any other access protection.

There were some great names that made me smile, like:

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