{"id":1003,"date":"2007-04-19T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T08:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/d47693ac2833b1efcd71fae45b0f650d"},"modified":"2007-04-19T01:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T08:29:18","slug":"wi-fi-piggybacking-is-all-too-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Wi-fi piggybacking is all too easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story about a <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4721723.stm\">wireless hijacking<\/a><\/b>, and this related piece about <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hereford\/worcs\/6565079.stm\">Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft'<\/a><\/b> is interesting, but sadly all too easy. <\/p>\n<p>My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story about a <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4721723.stm\">wireless hijacking<\/a><\/b>, and this related piece about <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hereford\/worcs\/6565079.stm\">Two cautioned over wi-fi &#8216;theft&#8217;<\/a><\/b> is interesting, but sadly all too easy. <\/p>\n<p>My wi-fi is protected, not only with encryption, but also by restricting by MAC address and deliberately hiding the wi-fi service. However, there are no less than five wifi services from other houses which are neither hidden, nor restrictive, and not one of them requires a password to connect or any type of encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}