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Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Arsenic Lupin posted:

My latest Comcast router at least has a permanent label with the randomly generated default password and network name.... On the bottom.

Theoretically this means that apart from the vanishingly small odds of guessing a randomly generated password a potential attacker would actually need to break into your house, look under your router for the password and use it in which case gently caress, they've got physical access to the device anyway which means they can basically do whatever they want with it if they know how.

in practice comcast probably generated a few dozen passwords then called it a day

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