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| Above, any one of these people at Narita Airport can be Wi-Fi snooping. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
If you are in Japan and while waiting for your flight to board you log into the Internet at any one of Japan's major airports with their free Wi-Fi service, your online information is vulnerable to snoopy people.
According to an article in News On Japan:
Users of free wireless Internet connections at Japan's Narita, Kansai and Kobe airports are vulnerable to electronic eavesdropping of their e-mail and web browsing, a study by an information and communications specialist showed Tuesday.
Such risks can be prevented by encrypting Wi-Fi connections, but the three airports refrain from doing so in favour of user convenience, as password entry would be required for encrypted Internet connections.
Free Wi-Fi connections are available at about 900,000 locations nationwide including public facilities and convenience stores, but many of them are not encrypted, according to Masakatsu Morii, a professor at a graduate school of engineering at Kobe University.
I have used Narita's free Wi-Fi service in the past. But, I make sure nothing of a sensitive nature is entered for anyone to see or steal.
To read the full article, go here.
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