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[โ€“] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] Gork@lemm.ee 47 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

Something like:

"FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE", one word, all uppercase.

[โ€“] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My man here is four parallel universes ahead of the hackers

[โ€“] lemmyman@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

AI will never crack that one

[โ€“] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] PeregrinoCinzento 1 points 11 months ago

(โ˜ž๏พŸใƒฎ๏พŸ)โ˜ž

[โ€“] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[โ€“] NaturalViber@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

wordswordswordswordsWORD

[โ€“] devbo@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Love this exchange

[โ€“] R2DPru@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] devbo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

you would be wrong

[โ€“] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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

[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 11 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.

[โ€“] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 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.