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Re:Please log in with router's password by toxicFork on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:24PM (#28134797)
And I'd bet a nice amount that most of them have the default passwords.

Some years ago I wrote a little tool to iterate all of an ISP's ip addresses and around 90% were using default passwords. Mostly homes, but some businesses.

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Re:Please log in with router's password by power78 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:08PM (#28136384)
According to a comment above, these routers require an admin password change when setup with no way around that.
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Re:Please log in with router's password by toxicFork on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:09AM (#28153473)
Sounds like they learned their lesson
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Re:Please log in with router's password by MontrealRaised on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @05:21AM (#28139824)
The ISP assigned a unique password and puts it as a label beneath the router - in my case. I kept it. I consider it save enough.
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