Hello all, and welcome to mintwifi.com, the secure WiFi locator. We pride ourselves on providing a current directory of safe and secure WiFi hotspots, provided by local businesses.
Why would we do this? Simply put, WiFi is more dangerous than you think. We as consumers are used to ‘free’ WiFi at the business establishments we visit on a daily basis. This unfortunately creates a magnet for those who thrive on the unsuspecting technically challenged, giving them potential access to information thought to be safe between the end user and the internet. The majority of us are not IT experts, not are we technically savvy enough to tell if we’re really being safe while we surf the internet on public WiFi. This gives those who intend on performing malicious practices a digital playground in which to either incur harm or ‘stalk’ your online session, essentially providing no curtain of privacy.
We wanted to give consumers the safety they deserve, by providing a search engine of local WiFi hotspots. We do this by limiting the user to a ‘sole’ connection to the internet.
The tech savvy may have a leg up on those of us who may not have the expertise to completely block ourselves from public network activity. Those who are so inclined have the potential of peeking in on other users connected to the same public network; with enough bits of information such as which kind of device you’re using or your device’s unique identifiable identification such as a MAC address, this gives them the ability to track your personal internet traffic. An unsuspecting target would have no knowledge of this intrusion, as a potential ‘snooper’ would rarely show their face, nor let you know they are committing a crime. MintWiFi powered hotspots close this door by disallowing any device to ‘see’ anything else on the network, ensuring you have a private and ‘sole’ connection to the internet.
We’ve created a fool-proof method of being able to tell which WiFi network is safe to join.
A common method of those attempting to steal your information is to create a ‘fake’ guest network. It is common to see the word ‘Guest’ when using public WiFi, which an end user may mistakenly connect to on an assumption that this is the correct public network the establishment wants them to use. To avoid this confusion, and to foil this method of trickery to an unsuspecting end user, we have created a two factor authentication method for being able to confirm which wireless network to connect to. When using one of our certified locations, the first step is to check the establishment’s page on the mintwifi.com search page. Each member of mintwifi.com will have a page on our website listing relative information such as hours of operation, street address, and a description of the local business. Also included on this page is the wireless network, or SSID, that we have certified as safe and secure. If someone is attempting to create a ‘fake’ network for your to connect to, this is a sure fire method of identifying the correct network.
