{"id":94705,"date":"2016-11-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=94705"},"modified":"2020-09-03T20:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:46:42","slug":"20161114-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20161114-00\/?p=94705","title":{"rendered":"What does the shield over a WiFi network mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 has a new icon in the networking flyout:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; width: 15em; font-family: Segoe UI, Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 1ex;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"WiFi icon with three bars and a shield with an exclamation point\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64, iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAYAAAAehFoBAAADxElEQVRYw+1YP2gaURx2fevNcpvc JgjaIRBolkCzCKUOgZKSQbJkSAYJOJQgBJdKGjK4OBQsSAeHB4EglYIgJCLkLzGhrdCIDflXr3Bw IDd8fXfn6Z2eTWw0Sck9eMO9+3n33e993\/f7PV0ulwv\/2XQAO4AdwA7gJwaYw9QKxW5NQhNsKDJ+ 13aRWfSBPA7AfsQ2SyiV2Nyr4kpW0G80pXNU91qxH948FOAg6JkdvB3E1ftBCvvb8acCmMDt9cJN HiFg4n6OufcUBUa180ZLE9o4Aw0+FsDEh9lUAdUrGYqtDhpoNL7i4+QdRJeuDg5YKcd6gC7SChpN U4x8hWqJIrU0jYCHG56tBW1TfIhUIIDAwmdc2Nw9TvJtTvoWKU5EI59NNKoFpObGwI3Mh8czOMUA QznCOq9mdQKJ8mVr6xWIJxRLY9x9FA6CcP66C9UvfFf99rAO2YoW9WwQLiGK4mUrq81zFJZvLizE 7UWA7dqLuQW84u9a6UgItK7cyGGlnkXIl8COZFznsegjfZ7pxsulDHKVGqSm+aPv5BKmKcRRbnPx B76srmL10x7ENtgNvH4Wb4OVvqURsvNTbgorOasA2w5Rq7BKuYmYf1i9hDCP3Gmzm7QQD5KY4Dq7 IB2xa9JLrYnENs7bP1cFWAJdmYaHG2m3xhqgtdaLGT+316aY4gkiRamVadqbWSbA5IE4CgEOEMy5 2yWUj5WhwVWOkRR6+Z81duWWAhxtP0zC0E1Exn5C6AtWEctI9BOg1kNMY0nVxeo7hP0jBDzOSqG6 1Uo1jXHLPR6xsqFA5ipCHwHSXfy0tK3Dcgnb7EagU\/ca+bA1ex2a1EFDpCejvuWCSYCqS9RQKRVA U2+H4MN9Jr9+pGf3OAnB9kNsaOISMJ+vD0uAgwTzSB7rL92JWzM4ntGLec+HsMyGaAusconi3QU4 QDCfhIZX3kLUYmMzyF3b00SI7\/yFJiMGTNjLNTqw3tecJRLd0vuL04xVhG2aSGxHOjQhvlmkcvpZ MJeahY+MCHA4rxflatpvWY8UZdt1W5oInVJuDIklQBg+YIO\/Itt28\/oksnU7azJOLjK2oh0qTOrB XaOO7OTQAYewoXXurLJZLIhlTMNVRMQc709DO7iIeYRN6zO5axvAI\/HhFjCjzTSm0W6eUQTN68yT NWfYT1j5HilC6sYrsY8l9w2Y8ZQ3r8f16IuNUE8BCaVPYHStiniC9GDucdtADh71TBfwWM9mrCn3 quvdh0rOo50mvG7S\/3n\/dhB1\/r10ADuAHcAO4AecfwArx3M9gEErSAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: white;\">Fred&#8217;s WiFi<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: silver;\">Open<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">It&#8217;s a WiFi network with a shield and an exclamation point. What does this mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means that the network is not secure.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for the network not to be secure?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same as &#8220;Open&#8221;. The network does not require a password and consequently does not use encryption. Anybody can snoop on your network activity unless you take your own encryption measures (such as using https).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It means that the network is not secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-94705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It means that the network is not secure.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}