LPT: If you need Wi-Fi at a restaurant

Kinja'd!!! "404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
12/28/2016 at 13:21 • Filed to: wifi, insecurity

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Try entering the phone number as the WPA password.

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They didn’t even change the default admin password from the Rogers one.


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Kinja'd!!! LOREM IPSUM > 404 - User No Longer Available
12/28/2016 at 13:50

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Assuming it shipped that way, thats terrible security on Rogers behalf. Shame on them.

I have the same modem on Shaw. The default password is 12 alphanumeric characters, and is most certainly not a phone number.

I also changed it immediately upon initial setup. According to grc research it would take over a trillion years to brute force.

And I continually can pull 180Mbps+ on my 150Mbps package. Just sayin.

You should help them out by completely reconfiguring their router and securing it properly. Good deeds and whatnot.


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12/28/2016 at 14:05

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Kinja'd!!! 404 - User No Longer Available > LOREM IPSUM
12/28/2016 at 22:50

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Nah, phone numbers just turn out to be common Wi-Fi passwords. Probably started out when early WEP keys are 10-hex, and conveniently phone numbers are 10 numerals.

I haven’t configured a Rogers router for a while, but I think they do ask you to change the password, but of course almost every tech and user will just skip that.