Presenting Author

Paul Beckman

Paper Type

Completed Research Paper

Abstract

This article describes the results of a two-pronged research project initiated to discover actions and attitudes about network security of urban residents toward their own home wireless computer networks in possible support of a community wireless network, and to do so across the socio-economic spectrum. The goal of the research project was to gain a better understanding of individual attitudes about private residential computer networks within the realm of community wireless networks by investigating residential wireless computer network security settings and reasons for those settings. This was accomplished by first driving through several differing socio-economic level neighborhoods and detecting security settings on residential wireless computer networks and subsequently surveying residents in those neighborhoods about their attitudes toward security in residential wireless computer networks.

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Residents’ Actions and Attitudes toward Security in Community Wireless Networks

This article describes the results of a two-pronged research project initiated to discover actions and attitudes about network security of urban residents toward their own home wireless computer networks in possible support of a community wireless network, and to do so across the socio-economic spectrum. The goal of the research project was to gain a better understanding of individual attitudes about private residential computer networks within the realm of community wireless networks by investigating residential wireless computer network security settings and reasons for those settings. This was accomplished by first driving through several differing socio-economic level neighborhoods and detecting security settings on residential wireless computer networks and subsequently surveying residents in those neighborhoods about their attitudes toward security in residential wireless computer networks.