• mommykink
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    589 months ago

    If someone tells me their wifi password is still the default password, I automatically think less of them

    • @[email protected]
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      469 months ago

      This is why I change mine to something difficult to comprehend yet still legible.

      Something like:

      “FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE”, one word, all uppercase.

        • @lemmyman
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          59 months ago

          AI will never crack that one

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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        129 months ago

        My trick is to change it to something that I immediately forget then if I need to modify any settings I can do a factory reset to get back in. Works every time

      • @Raiderkev
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        89 months ago

        I SAID IT’S FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE BUT THEY’RE CAPITALIZED DUMBASS!

        • CaptainBlagbird
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          19 months ago

          Ooh I mixed it up with the other one which is “My_name_in_camel_casE”

    • @devbo
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      79 months ago

      as a satilite software engineer. your just an asshole. smart and better protected, but thinking less of people due to something so silly makes you asshole.

      • @R2DPru
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        59 months ago

        Sounds like SOMEone is still using the default wi-fi password.

        • @devbo
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          19 months ago

          you would be wrong

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        It’s one of those things that makes life for you and anyone using your wifi way easier and all it takes is 30s and a Google search if you aren’t the most tech literate. It’s like not putting your cart away at the grocery store, it’s not a big thing but it’s annoying and impolite.

        • Flying Squid
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          19 months ago

          We live in a world where people get to Facebook by Googling Facebook. You expect way too much of people.

        • @[email protected]
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          09 months ago

          You can leave the password blank. Though that does mean anyone driving by your house might have their phone or whatever automatically connect to it. A few devices also don’t seem to like blank passwords (I think the Wii refused to connect that way).

          A simple password is fine. Keeps completely random people out, and devices will connect OK. Edge-based security is flawed, anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      Since manufacturers are getting more pushed into getting rid of default passwords and including random generated ones this is thankfully getting less and less of an issue.

  • @[email protected]
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    229 months ago

    The password is on the back of the router a complaint about delivery of the wrong grade of copper

  • @devbo
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    159 months ago

    yall need to learn how to read…

  • @ieightpi
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    109 months ago

    Didn’t know wingdings has those characters

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      I have a randomly generated password for my wifi (mostly historical reasons), but I hang QR codes around for it. Unfortunately, not enough devices support that sort of thing.

    • @n0m4n
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      19 months ago

      “UsethisQRcodeforthedefaultpassword” My new password, thx.

  • Ook the Librarian
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    9 months ago

    I hope you had their permission before putting their password out there where anyone could read it.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    Take a deep breath and look for the text that follows “password:” Self defeat is sell fufilling! Think of it as ASCII wheres Wally.

    • @R2DPru
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      29 months ago

      Do you mean Waldo?

      • @[email protected]
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        Pretty sure they say wally in England/Australia.

        That or I’m an idiot, that could be it too

  • Flying Squid
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    79 months ago

    I have a friend in Iceland who has spent several years teaching himself to read cuneiform for fun.

    Also, people from Iceland are fucking weird.

  • @[email protected]
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    79 months ago

    I don’t think I could ever go back to an off the shelf router anymore. Years ago I set up a pc with pfsense, hooked that up to a switch for my wired devices plus one to the wireless access point I bought from ubiquiti. Almost zero issues after setting it up, plus it’s much more flexible in that if my wireless dies, my wired devices still work. Or a component in the PC dies, I can just replace the part instead of the whole router. Takes some networking knowledge but really nothing you can’t learn from googling.

    • monk
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      39 months ago

      … with every replaced part and yearly power consumption costing as much as a new conventional low-power router? If the only thing it does is routing packets and you don’t run any heavy services on it, there are low-power, compact and cheap openwrt routers out there.

  • @[email protected]
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    49 months ago

    I can find where the password is, it’s just the default password handwritten like the title text.

  • Pika
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    39 months ago

    I get the point of the meme, but can I just say I hate routers that give you a default password other than admin or password. Like I get the point of it is to prevent the device from being insecure when the user doesn’t put a password on it. However after a while the back of the router becomes basically unreadable and when you go online and search default admin password for x and their support page says that the password is different per router it’s a little ridiculous. It is a much better approach to just force the password to be changed when you do the initial setup that way you can forget the admin password and factory reset it and still be able to access it where with current day routers if you reset it and you don’t have that little piece of plastic on the back that says the admin password you’re more or less SOL

    • @nikosan
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      39 months ago

      Where do you keep your router? Lol my oldest router is still clearly legible

      • Pika
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        19 months ago

        Mines behind our printer, it gets covered in dust and the adhesive on the sticker is starting to fail lol, thankfully it’s not one that does that though so I’m not too worried.