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Fran Lu

A Chinese man broke up with his girlfriend after he discovered her phone automatically connecting to the Wi-fi of a hotel they went to for the first time together.
The woman, surnamed Li, told Chongqing TV that her smartphone auto-connected to the Wi-fi at the reception desk of a hotel in southwestern China’s Chongqing municipality during the May Day holiday.
Both Li and her now ex-boyfriend noticed it as Li was trying to find her digital identity card because she forgot to bring her actual ID card required to check in.
As both are Chongqing locals, the man asked Li if she had been to the hotel with someone else before.

Li said it was the first time she had been to the hotel, and she could not explain why her phone auto-connected to the Wi-fi there.
They could not settle the argument, and the man ditched her thinking she was not loyal.
Li said even her friends did not believe her, adding that she felt insulted, and looked up the reason herself to prove her innocence.
She then realised that another hotel in Chongqing where she used to work, offered Wi-fi with the same username and passcode.
She contacted her angry ex-boyfriend to explain, but he refused to talk to her, and deleted her account on a chat app.
Li contacted Chongqing TV to have a chance to explain herself.
She added that she did not intend to get back together with the man who does not trust her.
A TV reporter went to Li’s workplace and connected to the Wi-fi at their reception desk, and went to the hotel Li and her ex-boyfriend visited to test her story.
The reporter’s phone also auto-connected to the Wi-fi there.

A cybersecurity specialist, surnamed Liu, told Chongqing TV that it is normal for the smartphone to auto-connect to a new Wi-fi with the same username and password, if the device had automatically saved previous login information.
He also advised people to turn off the auto-save function as it can be a security risk.
Online observers expressed anger at Li’s ex-boyfriend’s radical reaction.
“She should ditch him for not listening to her and not trusting her,” one person said.
While another added: “So what, even if she had been to the hotel? Can she not date anyone before him?”


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