By now wireless networks are virtually everywhere, easily accessible and often freely available.

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But is your wireless web connection safe?

Gboard’s editing mode on an Android phone.

Did you take all the commonly recommended precautions?

Now if you did follow all of the advice, is your wireless data pipe safe?

It’s not very likely, but it’s still possible.

Lenovo laptop showing file explorer in Windows 11

What remains to be done is monitor your wireless data pipe for suspicious activity.

It will detect all active MAC addresses and monitor their activity.

Warnings will be issued if unknown / unfriendly MAC addresses are detected.

The file explorer on the Dell XPS 14 9440.

Then watch for detection of unfriendly MAC addresses.

DHCP requests can be shown in a separate window.

I couldn’t get the >Send E-mail on alert option to work either.

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So what do you do when you detect a questionable MAC address?

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