This post was guest written by Tyler Thompson If there’s one thing we all know about apartment buildings, it’s that there’s always an unsecured Wi-Fi network somewhere. Someone, somewhere in the building has that precious linksys signal. I spent my formative years bouncing around from one crappy studio to another,

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