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The EFF wants to improve your privacy by making your Wi-Fi public |
June 21, 2014
Conventional wisdom dictates that to maintain your security and privacy, you should encrypt your Wi-Fi network. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that partially opening up your home Wi-Fi network could actually enhance your privacy, and is working on a tool to make it easier to do so.According to Wired, the EFF will release free firmware for Wi-Fi routers that will “let you share a portion of your Wi-Fi network, password-free, with anyone nearby.” The software, called “Open Wireless Router,” is part of the EFF’s OpenWireless.org initiative, which aims to make free wireless Internet as ubiquitous as possible.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2366129/the-eff-wants-to-improve-your-privacy-by-making-your-wi-fi-public.html#tk.rss_all
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