People are willing to give up their first born for free wi-fi? Shocking or just failure to read the small print.
Posted on 30 September 2014.http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/wireless2.jpg"A new Wi-Fi investigation conducted on the streets of London shows that consumers carelessly use public Wi-Fi without regard for their personal privacy.
In the experiment, which involved setting up a ‘poisoned’ Wi-Fi hotspot, unsuspecting users exposed their Internet traffic, their personal data, the contents of their email, and even agreed to an outrageous clause obligating them to give up their firstborn child in exchange for Wi-Fi use.
The independent investigation, supported by Europol, was carried out on behalf of F-Secure by the UK's Cyber Security Research Institute and SySS, a German penetration testing company." Full Article
People will do anything for free Wi-Fi
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How degrading and low can you get!!!! To even suggest giving up your child for WiFi?????????????
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Don't see why you are so shocked Anthony...if a parent is prepared to do that then perhaps the child in question is better off without them/with some else?
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People need to learn these days when anywhere besides at home should be using a VPN service then they wouldn't be able to read any of the packets in a Virtual Tunnel and most of them have an App for any device you might have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network
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