We at BFP want to say a big “Thank You!” to LEX Caribbean…
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday June 2, 2011 – In January 2010 the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation (BEF) launched a mission to provide free Wi-Fi connectivity around Barbados by November 11th, 2011. Since then the Foundation has been steadily encouraging companies and individuals throughout the island to unlock their Wi-Fi so as to realise the vision which drives this mission.
Last Tuesday, 24th May, LEX Caribbean, a leading law firm on the Island, with offices in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and London as well was the latest company to unlock their Wi-Fi in furtherance of the BEF initiative. LEX Caribbean now provides free Wi-Fi access via a signal that extends approximately a kilometre to the West and North of their offices in Worthing, Barbados.
Continue reading this story at Caribbean360.com
Barbados Free Press 
I’m on the fence about it. I think a lot of good can come from it but so can a lot of bad. The Computer Misuse Act I feel might make LAN owners liable for any illegal activities carried out on a private network. So I hope that Act will be updated to take all that into consideration. I have to thank Italia Wifi as well. Many a photo and Barbados article I was able to contribute to thanks to their hotspot.
One thing to keep in mind: It is possible that hackers can pick your passwords out of the air when you’re using a hotspot. It is suggested if you’re going to use a lot of hotspots that you install a plugin to force your laptop to use SSL/HTTPS whenever possible!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has kick off the initiative of trying to get as many people as they can secured up because a new programme was release last year that makes it now VERY easy to hack other PCs on the same local hotspot:
See following article:
http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/04/eff-wants-to-secure-the-web-with-https-now-campaign/
many a article on Wikipedia that is.
its a pity that wunna does shroud wunna self in secrecy and launch all sorts of accusations but want open wifi and open internet. smacks of hypocrisy innit?