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Remember not to broadcast your login credentials on national television (media.piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

There was a common issue with a local ISP that their default wifi router passwords were based on the router's MAC address.

I scanned the wifis I could reach from my flat and found one that was vulnerable. Now I didn't know who that wifi belonged to. I would have had to knock on everyone's door, asking everyone if it's their wifi. Couldn't be bothered doing that and looking stupid doing so.

So instead I logged into their wifi and from there into their router config web page (it also had the default credentials admin/admin) and changed the SSID to [old SSID]_hacked.

The day after they had changed the SSID back and changed the password.