City-wide Wireless for San Francisco

News and Information on the city-wide Wi-Fi proposal for San Francisco.

• Oppose city-wide WiFi. Why? Read Mark Longwood's speech at San Francisco City Hall, September 28th, 2005. (PDF)
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• SNAFU Response to Mayor Newsom’s RFI for City-wide WiFi, September 28, 2005. (PDF)
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• Public Health Dept. of Salzburg, Austria Advisory on WiFi in Schools, December 5, 2005. (PDF)
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• Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks,
  Times Online, UK, November 20, 2006
  by Joanna Bale
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• The WiFi Blues,
  Your Own Health and Fitness, March 28, 2006,
  by Jeffry Fawcett, PhD
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• It's easy to spy on your Wi-Fi - Experts say home networks are particularly vulnerable,
  San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 2007
  by Dan Fost
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• ‘Evil Twins’ and ‘Pharming’: Hackers Use Two New Tricks to Steal Online Identities; Scams are Harder to Detect, Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2005
  by Kevin J. Delaney
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• Fiscal Feasibility Analysis of a Municipally-Owned Citywide Wireless Broadband Network
  San Francisco Budget Analyst, January 11, 2007
  
  
• Fiber Optics for Government and Public Broadband:   A Feasibility Study
  Columbia Telecommunications Corporation, January 2007
  
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• Wi-Fi: Children at risk from 'electronic smog'
  Revealed - radiation threat from new wireless computer networks. Teachers demand inquiry to protect a generation of pupils
  The Independent, UK
  April 22, 2007, by Geoffrey Lean