NODE f921fa8bRe: testing email from airport kiosk
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:24:09 -0800 (PST)
An update on the SF airport kiosk email machines:
Judging from the headers, there _is_ a Linux machine driving
the laptops, and there's a Metricom ricochet modem
providing the communications path - interesting alternative to wires,
and I guess they don't mind having the extra radio waves in the airport.
It does support anonymous email, in that you can type in
any email address you want, and it doesn't seem to mind.
In addition to limited web, telnet, and outgoing email,
it lets you retrieve email with POP3. Doesn't seem to be a way
to get it to run a program, though :-)
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NODE 625430b7Re: testing email from airport kiosk
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Sat, 25 Jan 1997 04:40:29 -0800 (PST)
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> An update on the SF airport kiosk email machines:
...
> It does support anonymous email, in that you can type in
> any email address you want, and it doesn't seem to mind.
> In addition to limited web, telnet, and outgoing email,
> it lets you retrieve email with POP3. Doesn't seem to be a way
> to get it to run a program, though :-)
My immediate guess would be that everyone using it gets videotaped,
then all activity is logged, and that the LEAs are waiting for some
idiot to use it to retrieve kiddie porn and/or terrorist bobm-making
instructions.
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