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Title    Britons Sign Away First Born Children for Free Wifi
Date    Tuesday September 30 2014, @09:56AM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the sucker-born-every-minute dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/30/0436231

n1 writes:

Yahoo! News reports:

Several Britons agreed to give up their eldest child in return for the use of free wifi, in an experiment to highlight the dangers of public Internet, published on Monday.

Londoners were asked to agree to terms and conditions as they logged on to use free wifi in a cafe in a busy financial district and at a site close to the houses of parliament.

The terms included a "Herod clause", under which the wifi was provided only if "the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity."

Only six people agreed to the terms and conditions, however:

In just 30 minutes, 250 devices connected to the hotspot -- some of them doing so automatically due to their settings.

The company was able to collect the text of emails they sent, the email addresses of the sender and recipient, and the password of the sender.

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  1. "n1" - https://soylentnews.org/~n1/
  2. "Yahoo! News reports" - http://news.yahoo.com/britons-sign-away-first-born-children-free-wifi-222708987.html

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