Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Free WiFi: Chinese Version

February 24, 2010, Do you want to have free WiFi service? You don't need to depend your local government to provide this service, or you don't need to go to a Macdonald, what you need to do is just to buy a new wireless gadget,"WiFi decoder".


This gadget only costs you about 150-200 RMB. It is just like a computer mouse, with USB interface and antenna which helps it easily find all wifi networks within 2KM range. The "smartest" function of this gadget is that it can automatically decode the encryption of any WiFi network it detects.


According to a retail of this WiFi decoder in Foshan, a city near Guangzhou, the gadget is just high power wireless network card integrated decoder software. By sharing with other people's internet connection, a user of this gadget can free access the internet. The only result is that the original internet connection owner will have to endure much slower speed. In a computer store in Foshan, a retailer can easily sell this more than 10 of this gadget each day.

So who develops these products? You can not find the name of manufacture on the product. According to those retailers, all these WiFi decoders are imported from Hongkong or Shenzhen. And this product appeared on the market earlier this year.


Obviously, no matter you sell or you use this gadget, you are against the law. But in today's China, There are so many grey zones that you can get benefit without being punished. This Chinese version Free WiFi is really a special result of today's China.

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