The following note

is very important and I was surprised myself when I read it:

…The other day I was wandering around San Francisco on a work trip, and I freaked out when I noticed the WiFi indicator on my iPhone was showing an active connection to some random network. I never have my phone set to connect to unknown networks, so I quickly jumped into the settings to see what the heck was going on.

Turns out I was connected to “tsunami” which is a common default name on Cisco wireless gear. Like the Cisco gear in our community center, which just a week or so before I was playing with. And that got me thinking.

Many of you probably connect to wireless networks with common names- like Linksys, 2WIRExx, tsunami, or whatever. In other words, either default networks, or names (like those used at conferences and airports) that are in common use or easy to find. But when you remember those on your iPhone (or computer for that sake), it only remembers the network ID (SSID), not that actual network! …MORE….

One of the best tips that’s offered in the above article is always to have "Ask to join networks" turned ON.  Are you doing that?

More iPhone security resources include:

• iPhone wifi tips
• Secure your iPhone - what’s in that datafile?
• iPhone security hellhole

hope the above is useful!

Owlbert

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