Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?

Re:Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? by Orphis on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:22AM (#27253581)

I remember stories of the default password being a weak hash of the SSID. And when those are "ISPNAME-4DIGITS", it's not too hard to collect them all.

Sometimes, they can be retrieved from the MAC address as well. So it's just the illusion of security for most.

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Re:Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? by serf on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:27AM (#27253606)

verizon just recently stopped defaulting the wep key to a very simple hash derived from the ssid and mac.[0][1]

[0]: https://www.xkyle.com/verizon-fios-wireless-key-calculator/

[1]: https://aruljohn.com/fios/

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Re:Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? by yrro on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:57AM (#27254692)

Verizon CPE still uses WEP?!!?

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Re:Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door? by serf on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:49AM (#27261157)

I don't know about elsewhere , but Frontier took over FiOS management in some regions and continued to push those same APs for a long while.

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