Thursday, October 9, 2008
Week 7 Muddiest Point
When I am in Downtown Pittsburgh, my IPod sometimes picks up a "Free Wi-FI" connection that I do not believe is the free two hours a day WiFi. When I looked it up online, I found out some of these may be up to nefarious things, and that when you are connected to most public wi-fi spots your computer may be at risk. Is their anyway to protect your computer and information? Also how can you tell the difference between a legit WiFi connection and one that is up to no good?
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Technically, any wifi network that you can connect to is "legitimate" - if you can connect to the internet it is a legitimate network. That being said, an unsecured wireless network is NEVER safe. If there's no password, don't do anything sensitive on it (i.e. nothing with a password). The only way to be really safe is to never connect to a wireless network you are unfamiliar with.
Elizabeth's comment is exactly what i want to say. thanks Elizabeth.
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