{"id":880113,"date":"2024-11-23T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=880113"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T07:04:20","slug":"are-you-safe-on-public-wi-fi-what-you-need-to-know-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/23\/are-you-safe-on-public-wi-fi-what-you-need-to-know-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you safe on public Wi-Fi? What you need to know now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) scheme, launched by the government earlier this year, aims to provide free Wi-Fi in public places nationwide, enabling citizens to access the internet while traveling. But is connecting to public Wi-Fi truly safe? <\/p>\n<p>Public Wi-Fi is everywhere, from coffee shops to railway stations to airports, but did you know connecting to these can put your data at risk? Many people find public Wi-Fi networks convenient since they offer free-of-cost service and usually put their devices on auto-connect. But these networks harbour security and privacy risks, especially open networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) scheme, launched by the government earlier this year, aims to provide free Wi-Fi in public places nationwide, enabling citizens to access the internet while traveling. But is connecting to public Wi-Fi truly safe? Public Wi-Fi is everywhere, from coffee shops to railway stations to airports, but did you know connecting to these can put your data at risk? Many people find public Wi-Fi networks convenient since they offer free-of-cost service and usually put their devices on auto-connect. But these networks harbour security and privacy risks, especially open networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}