what the hell: free router: fon? gigaom?

[Goosemaster]

http://www.fon.com/gigaom/

Get WiFi everywhere - FON gives you FREE internet access wherever you see a FONspot. There´s over 70,000 of them world wide already!

Get wifi everywhere - FON gives you FREE internet access wherever you see a FONspot. There´s over 70,000 of them world wide already!

Together with our friends at GigaOM we´ll send you a FREE La Fonera WiFi router. Shipping and taxes are included and we will ship it to you right away. There are no downloads, no contract and no hassle. So what are you waiting for? Join FON!

Connect La Fonera or share it with someone else. That´s all!

Some sort of juicy catch along with this too? Saw it on digg and was intrigued...

 

[tweakmm]

My guess is massive data mining.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
My guess is massive data mining.

I would think so. There is one in my area too.Maybe one could firewall the HELL out of it?

 

[Goosemaster]

Apparently you can re flash it and put dd-wrt on it

 

[Goosemaster]

Interesting. Apparently the device has two radios.

http://en.fon.com/info/whats_fon.php

maybe I can have some fun with this:evil:


looks like the only terms are that you have to leave it on 24hrs away...can anyone say throttle the hell out of it....can anyone say liability?

 

[Goosemaster]

n/m

2.2. In order to provide our services, we will need to share your personal data
with third parties. You agree and accept that, in order to be able to provide FON
Services, the data you provide to FON can be shared between companies of
FON´s Group and with contractors that are specifically hired by FON to provide
services to us and to our users within the scope of the Privacy and Data
Protection Policy as published in the FON Website.

not worth my time since I had a real hotspot setup anyways...