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USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-password-is-passw0rd dept.

Mark.JUK writes "Some 40% of wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet access hotspots in the USA are unlocked and do not require a security password, which compares with 25% in Europe; according to WeFi based statistics. Across the world, approximately 30% of recorded Wi-Fi access points are unlocked, while some 70% are locked. Nice to see everybody taking security so seriously, then. It should be perfectly possible to 'share' Wi-Fi while using WPA or WPA2 security measures at the same time."

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  1. Re:No wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Also, Europeans tend (on average, not in every case) to have a higher degree of technical know-how than Americans, so on average more of them know _how_ to secure their access points. That's bound to skew the numbers: many people in the USA don't even know that it's possible to do this, and the WAP's ship by default unsecured.

  2. Re:How secure is secured? by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 1, Troll

    A videogame is a piss stupid reason to make your entire network unsecured.

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