Private Lives as WiFi Performance Art
Most readers of this blog are well aware of the risks of unencrypted wifi, but a Toronto-based artist is demonstrating some of those risks in a rather graphic way.
Michelle Teran is presenting a series of performance art pieces in which she leads a small group of onlookers through the streets of a city (recently, Cardiff, in Wales) carrying a video monitor and receiver tuned to the 2.4GHz band on which many wireless equipment operates, such as closed-circuit video monitors. When she finds unencrypted signals she displays the unintentionally-broadcast signals on her monitor for her audience.
