Sunday 19 May 2013

Opening your Wifi during emergency's

During the Boston bombing the Disaster Tech Lab tweetet: "If you live or run a business in #Boston near bombsite (please) open your wifi for people to use. Communications are important!"


With a huge increase of (tele)communication during any mayor incident, increasing the ability to communicate can have a positive impact for people to communicate to there loved ones, information getting to the first responders and emergency services to communicate with each other.  However keeping communication lines open can also mean, keeping them open for the ones that want to harm us. With wide spread use of smartphones, a terrorist might use smartphones as a means to activate a device.

With terrorist already targeting first responders with secondary devices in the middle east, what would be a good strategic to deal with this? There are no real good answer to this question, it depends. But keeping this question in mind and you might be able to find a answer in the future.

If you do decide open up your Wifi, make sure others can not access your data in your network. Open networks can obviously be dangerous for your data safety.

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