A little over a week ago, I spent a few hours with my good friend Andrew to help him renew his Apple certifications.  We went to a really nice coffee cafe near White Rock Lake.  While Andrew worked on his certifications, I used the free Wi-Fi to surf the web, and keep track of some auctions on eBay.  While enjoying the free internet goodness, I noticed that several other customers in the cafe were using PCs with file sharing turned on.  Out of curiosity, I clicked on a few of the PCs that were showing up on my Mac.  Out of the 3 that were visible to my Mac, 2 had file sharing with guest access enabled.  One had accounting information in an unsecured folder!  Not wanting to violate someone’s privacy further, I did not open any of the files that I saw, but I did save a text file onto this person’s computer to let him/her know that I was able to get into their computer easily, without any trouble.  This is actually something that I notice every time I am on a public Wi-Fi network at Starbucks, the airport, and a lot of other places with Wi-Fi.  With all of the identity theft going around, why do so many people fail to do anything about securing their computers? (more…)

Well, so much for “unlimited” data plans.  While AT&T struggles with iPhone users who actually expect to USE their iPhones for internet and email, why not upgrade the network instead of whining about supposed iPhone “data hogs”?  This blame the customer strategy is the wrong road to go down.  The iPhone, along with every other smartphone, is hyped as being a phone, and an internet and email device.  When customers actually use their phones for those purposes, it’s wrong to start complaining.

On a positive note… AT&T recently cut me a very good deal on my service.  I appreciate that, and in return, I’ve agreed not to bug their execs anymore about their network issues.  I’m still a customer though, and I will not tolerate limits being placed on me because I actually use my iPhone to the fullest.  I’m signed up for unlimited data, and I expect to get it!

Let’s not even get me started about the lack of a 3G tethering option, and the fact that we get charged extra for text messages!

AppleInsider | AT&T warns of coming clamp-down on iPhone data hogs.