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Six people agreed to give up firstborn in order to access Wi-Fi

on Sep 30, 2014 | 0 comments

By Ishbel Macleod

The public’s need for the internet is so high that six people even agreed to give up their firstborn child and beloved pets in order to access Wi-Fi, in an experiment carried out by F-Secure.

In 30 minutes, 250 devices connected to the ‘poisoned’ hotspot which was set up by the UK’s Cyber Security Research Institute and SySS, a German penetration testing company, on behalf of F-Secure.

According to the Tainted Love: How Wi-Fi Betrays Us report, the Wi-Fi hotspot was set up in prominent business districts of London, with those who agreed to connect exposing their internet traffic and personal data Read full story ›

Source: The Drum