One of my favorite comments on this week's feature—about the Seattle Police Department's new wireless mesh network, what its surveillance capabilities might be, and why we don't have any regulations about it on the books yet—is right up at the top, where TomJohnsonJr simply writes...

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... then links to a photo of a phone showing a mesh network router in the background and what is, presumably, a list of available networks that could be pinging his phone at that moment.

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Speaking of photography, Malcolm Smith took some marvelous photos of the routers in different places around downtown Seattle for this week's feature. Here are some bonus shots that didn't make it into the print edition:

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