State of Utah gets into wireless warchalking

Warchalking, the effort to create chalk signals to wireless geeks that here be an open access point, may become an official thing, at least in Utah.

Philip Windley, the state of Utah's CIO, writes that the idea could really help police officers with Wi-Fi cards in their PCs:

We network over 250 buildings for 22,000 employees. We're also in the planning phase of deploying Wi-Fi access points at places where cops hang out so they can connect to the net during their shift (they use CDPD for low bandwidth ops, but need a high bandwidth option sometimes). In this kind of environment, warchalking has some important uses beyond finding a free net. I'm hoping to use the warchalking icons to alert employees to the existence of wireless nets in conference rooms and other places.

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