Easy WiFi Security
Easy WiFi has been designed from the ground up to protect your sensitive information and keep you safe while using your WiFi device on the Internet.
The Web Site and Web Service
Whenever you login to easywifi.com we use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect all information that you communicate to our website. This ensures that your sensitive personal data, such as your name, your hotspot account details and your personal network settings, cannot be intercepted as it crosses the Internet or be captured by a fake websites posing as easywifi.com. In addition, your information is stored in strongly-encrypted format (using the Advanced Encryption Standard) on our servers at secure data hosting centers. In the unlikely event that one of our servers is penetrated by a hacker, your personal data would be effectively impossible to decrypt.
Communications Between Device and Service
In the course of using Easy WiFi with your WiFi device certain types of sensitive information, such as passwords and security codes, must be communicated. We strongly encrypt all transmissions between your device and our servers to prevent eavesdroppers, man-in-the-middle, and other types of attacks on your data. This protection is in place over both the wireless network as well as the wired backbone of the Internet.
Hackers and Phishing Resilience
Using Easy WiFi for hotspot access is more secure than manually logging into a hotspot. This is due to the increasing prevalence of so-called "evil twins", which are phony hotspots masquerading as legitimate ones. These phony hotspots trick you into logging in with your username and password, which they then capture. Evil twins often provide you with actual Internet access so they can further sniff your communications to glean other sensitive personal data.
Easy WiFi protects against evil twins by authenticating the "security certificate" that most legitimate commercial hotspots provide. This certificate definitively authenticates the hotspot and cannot be faked by an evil twin. If the certificate check passes, Easy WiFi allows you to access the hotspot; if the certificate check fails, then Easy WiFi will not connect you, or will seek a safer WiFi network if others are available. How is this more secure than a manual login? Well, if a certificate check fails, many devices will warn you with an obscure message laden with technical jargon. Most people don't understand the message and simply ignore it, choosing to proceed and login to the insecure hotspot.
Sharing Without Exposing Your Security Keys
If you use our personal network sharing feature you may realize that your home network security settings are sent to your friends' devices (and vice versa). We encrypt your home network settings for transfer to your friends' devices, and we also store them securely on these devices so they can't be easily copied by your friends or others. This ensures that only your friends can access your home network, and that you can disable their access whenever you choose.
Network and User Identification
Simple open (unsecured) networks are everywhere. While most are legitimate, some are deliberately setup to capture sensitive information from hapless users. When a simple open network joins the Easy WiFi Network, we know many things about it which help determine its veracity. We know its unique ID (technically its BSSID), its location, its history and which devices have used it. Even better, we can respond to complaints about it and blacklist it to ensure that it is removed from the Easy WiFi Network. We will also provide information to authorities to assist in tracking down illegal use.
The flip-side to this issue is abuse of open networks by users. Uniquely, Easy WiFi provides an identification mechanism about which users are accessing these open networks, allowing abuse to be contained.