How Many Unsecured Wi-Fi Networks Does Your Town Have?

If you live in the City of London, the answer is 27%. That's according to Project Warbike, a recent experiment conducted by one man riding around town on his bicycle scanning the airwaves for Wi-Fi signals emanating from homes and business buildings. Unsecured networks can be defined as those using either no encryption or WEP (an outdated protocol).

One might try to claim that Londoners are behind the curve and the UK has a higher rate of unsecured wireless networks than other countries, although its quite possible the opposite is true. How many unsecured networks do you find in your own neighborhood?

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