{"id":173,"date":"2010-08-01T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-08-01T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:07:04","slug":"security-concerns-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/security-concerns-wi-fi","title":{"rendered":"Security Concerns With Public Wi-Fi Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-174\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/security-concerns-wi-fi-173.html\/woman-laptop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-174\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"woman-laptop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/woman-laptop-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/woman-laptop-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/woman-laptop-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/woman-laptop.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have heard much about how Wi-Fi is not secure. Yet, last week a news report lead me to believe that the problem is when people log into Wi-Fi networks where the administrator\/company is unknown and unscrupulous as they can see what you are doing and then steal passwords, credit card numbers, and so on. The report inferred that a Wi-Fi network is OK if it is from a trusted source like your known hotel chain or Starbucks where the network manager wouldn&#8217;t do that &#8211; we assume anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Is this true that the problem comes from is who is running the network or are all Wi-Fi open networks easily open to hackers and theft? A follow up question, would a Wi-Fi network from a trusted source with a simple access password for all (even if given to a hacker) stop all the problems? And are there actual ways that one can securely use public Wi-Fi networks without worries of hackers and possible theft of personal information?\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard much about how Wi-Fi is not secure. Yet, last week a news report lead me to believe that the problem is when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}