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"informed end user." Or it could be a free automatic feature of Android 4.4. The almighty GOOG has the unusual situational advantage of being the same guy doing the WIFI and doing the phone/tablet OS. The only place AAPL has them beat is they sell the wifi access point devices too.

They could release an ITMS app for iDevices, I suppose.

My relatively new android phone is running 2.3.7, so somehow shoehorning it into an android app would be more useful than adding to a OS I probably won't have access to for years.

Its going to need to be cross platform for the laptop users anyway.

Note that as a startup idea you don't need to be .mil grade and encrypt and verify every packet. Something as simple as a notification pop up along the lines of "Holy Cow you are in Great Danger!" would be more useful than the present nothing.



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