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My neighbor's simple comment about his router made me change my password
We were talking about his new internet plan last week, and he mentioned he still had the default password on his router from the cable company. He said, 'If someone really wants in, they'll get in anyway, so why bother?' That stuck with me because I used to think the same thing. I looked it up and found a list of the top 10 default passwords for my router model, and mine was number three. Changed it that night. Anyone else have a moment that finally pushed them to fix a simple security hole?
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reese_bell1mo ago
Did you end up using something like a password manager to keep track of it? That was the only way I got my stuff locked down. I set a really long random string for my router admin panel and my wifi password, then I wrote it down on a piece of paper taped to the bottom of the router. Sounds dumb, I know, but it works because nobody's gonna crawl under my desk to steal it. Plus I changed the SSID to not give away the router model, so they can't look up default logins. That little bit of effort saved me from a neighbor who tried to leech my wifi a few months back, so it's worth the hassle.
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the_sage3mo ago
Yeah, that default password list is no joke. I checked mine after reading a similar post and found the login for the admin panel was still 'admin/admin'. It's scary how many people never even log into their router's settings to change that.
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