https://www.labnol.org/internet/secure-your-wireless-wifi-network/10549/

Amit Agarwal was a successful professional from India before he left that life to become one of India’s most prominent bloggers. He is even more interesting to me due to the title of this course, and started a ‘digital inspiration’ blog where he aims to educate Indian’s on the ever-growing facets of the internet. The blog of Agarwal’s that I chose is one from August 2014 titled “How to Secure Your Wireless (WiFi) Home Network”. I remember Cadet Conrad discussing in one of our classes that she used a public WiFi network when she visited China the first time before she was told that she should use a secured network. With so many people in India, the WiFi complex is an interesting one to me.

Agarwal starts out the blog by giving a little bit of background about how wireless signals can easily be used by others. A few of the downsides of others using your wifi network include an increase in your internet bill, a decrease in the internet speed, and the ability for others to hack sensitive information on your connected devices. Agarwal goes on to provide a very simple and easy-to-follow guide on how to secure a wireless network. This step by step information seems very easy to follow and is not a very long article. It is noteworthy to say that his blogs are all in English. I am not sure if this is because I am accessing it from the US, but if not, it is a universal language that most Indian people know rather than the regional tongue that many speak in the different Indian regions.

This 7-step blog was interesting to me because in Indian cities with millions of people, there have to be hundreds of thousands of WiFi networks. Along with normal crimes, I feel like cyber-crimes are too easy to pull off in these Indian cities. While securing a WiFi network can provide security from others, is it still able to protect one from the overwatch of the government? Securing the WiFi network prevents hackers from accessing the information, but can the government still access sensitive information? Agarwal’s blog post seem to be more informational than controversial which is probably different than some of the bloggers from the other countries that my classmates will be discussing. I surely could have chosen an Indian activist who blogs about issues that they have with the government, but this Agarwal blog is very informative and I think he is doing good for digital India.