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The Wall Street Journal published a write up warning users to be careful when accessing WiFi from an hotel room.
The hotel room scenario is a particularly tempting one which many of us can probably relate to. After the trip you arrive at your hotel room and want to check your email. Open up the laptop and see that there are a few wireless network, first you may try the one that has the hotel name just to realize that they want you to pay 30$ to connect, so you move to the next best alternative that seems to be open and hopefully free. Indeed you got a break and the network is open! Unfortunately the guy running the network is next door and he is now sniffing all your traffc looking for something interesting to steal.
The article suggests a few alternatives to protect yourself, unfortunately some of such solutions are not practical (using your work VPN for personal stuff may not be allowed) or they require extra costs.
These are exactly the type of problems that have motivated us to start wifi.com. We want to make sure that you can get free wifi access. We want to make sure that your experience is secure.
That’s a great question…but we’re not ready to spill the beans (yet)!
What we can say is that our goal is to empower consumers to free themselves from commercial wireless services and bring together a community of users who desire safe, easy and free internet access when away from home and work.
If you want to be notified about our beta launch, just drop your email in our homepage signup box and you’ll be the first one to know.
