{"id":928,"date":"2007-04-19T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T08:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/53effaf9dc019bba61d6eb171998a373"},"modified":"2007-04-19T01:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T08:29:18","slug":"wifi-piggybacking-is-all-too-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Wifi 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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Eh7sIJ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Eh7sIJ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/110275068\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Eh7sIJ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Eh7sIJ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/110275068\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/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\/928"}],"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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}