{"id":42786,"date":"2013-04-03T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=42786"},"modified":"2013-04-03T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:18:53","slug":"dangers-of-letting-neighbors-borrow-your-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/dangers-of-letting-neighbors-borrow-your-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of Letting Neighbors Borrow Your WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4>Dangers of Letting Neighbors Borrow Your WiFi<\/h4>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p><em>I have a home network with three computers (two desktops connected with ethernet cables to a Linksys router; laptop is wireless). The wireless signal is encrypted and I gave my next-door neighbors my network key so they can wirelessly connect just to check email, do banking, etc. They are not on my home network, but can they still see where I am surfing (such as my bank site with passcodes, etc.)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me, at least, make one important correction to what you&#8217;ve described:<\/p>\n<p>If you give someone access to your wireless access point, you have given them access to your home network.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re on it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what they can see depends on a number of things but to be blunt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you trust them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Wireless Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to realize that a wireless connection &#8211; regardless of how your hardware is set up &#8211; is a connection to your network.<\/p>\n<p>A very common scenario looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/simple_wireless_router.png\" alt=\"simple_wireless_router\" width=\"397\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/simple_wireless_router.png 397w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/simple_wireless_router-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a simple setup where multiple computers are connected to the internet via a single device: a wireless router. Some computers are wired, and some computers are connected via the wireless connection.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to realize that this is exactly equivalent to this:<\/p>\n<p>A wireless router just puts the wireless access point in the same box as the router itself, but in either case it&#8217;s nothing more than a connection to your local network.<\/p>\n<p>And of course machines on your local network should all be able to &#8220;see&#8221; each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About That Encryption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that your wireless access point is using encryption, but it&#8217;s important to realize what it does and does not do.<\/p>\n<p>By giving your neighbor the password you&#8217;ve given them the encryption password. As a result, the encryption is not affecting your security with respect to them at all. It&#8217;s as if they were connected directly to your network &#8211; because they are. It&#8217;s almost the same thing as having given them a wired connection to your router.<\/p>\n<p>The encryption prevent others &#8211; people to whom you have not given the password &#8211; from accessing your network.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask-leo.com\/if_i_let_my_neighbor_share_my_wifi_can_they_see_my_network_traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here:<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with permission from Leo Notenboom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/neighwifi.jpg\" alt=\"neighwifi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/neighwifi.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/neighwifi-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you gave your neighbors your network key &#8211; what can they see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4445,4446],"class_list":["post-42786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leo-notenboom","tag-wifi-security","tag-wireless-secruity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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