Picture the scene:

It's a grey, rainy English summer day. I'm sitting in my car, parked 
round the back of a dilapidated roadside restaurant in the middle of 
nowhere. Hanging from the crumbling paintwork is a bright shiny sign 
proclaiming "Free Wi-Fi!" The car park is completely empty except for me 
and 3 other cars. I'm sitting in the driver's seat in my office shirt 
and trousers, with my pass still hanging round my neck. The laptop is 
plugged into an AC adaptor, which is plugged into a DC to AC inverter, 
which is plugged into the cigarette lighter in the dashboard. I have the 
engine running. Between that and the inverter, my car is currently 
functioning as an over-priced portable petrol generator, and it's 
powering the laptop.

Using the Wi-Fi, I've been able to establish an encrypted VPN tunnel to 
our corporate HQ in Indiana, USA, which is then routing my encrypted 
traffic back to the UK office, where I've established an RDP session 
with a laptop sitting in the server room. While sitting in the car park, 
I've successfully installed a remote COM port mapper program and our 
temperature probe monitoring software on the laptop in the server room, 
so that, from 8.8 miles away, I can tell what the internal temperature 




Now all I've got to do is explain to the nominated freezer response 
person who to launch this unholy contrivance themselves, over 56K 
dial-up from their house...

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