{"id":1053,"date":"2007-11-30T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/wefi-and-the-willingness-of-people-to-share.html"},"modified":"2007-11-30T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T15:22:42","slug":"wefi-and-the-willingness-of-people-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"WeFi and the willingness of people to share"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fon<\/a> is “share a little WiFi at home and roam the world for free”. This proposition has intrigued over half a million people around the world with over 1000 signing up every day. My friend Yossi Vardi<\/a> introduced me to a new company that he invested in called WeFi<\/a> who wants to achieve a similar objective to Fon but with a different method. The idea of WeFi is that some people go wardriving looking for open wifi routers and report them in a map. Then other users validate that this or that router is indeed open by connecting to it. At Fon we had a similar idea but we discarded it because we were concerned about not knowing whether somebody had left a WiFi router open willingly or not. Nor could we certify the quality of that router and we were concerned about the breach of security of people surfing inside other people\u00b4s networks. But WeFi went ahead with a beautifully designed web site and provided that these issues do not turn out to be a real problem Fon is in favor of collaborating with WeFi as we are with Meraki<\/a>, Whisher<\/a> and any other efforts that lead to more WiFi coverage.<\/p>\n

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Fon is “share a little WiFi at home and roam the world for free”. This proposition has intrigued over half a million people around the world with over 1000 signing up every day. My friend Yossi Vardi introduced me to a new company that he invested in called WeFi who wants to achieve a similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t