Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoA long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That’s how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don’t recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.
I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Honestly, even limiting it to, say, the WiFi network, having a default admin login is not great.
Like, Android isolates apps from the rest of your system, but not from touching the rest of the network. If any random app I install on my phone can reflash my WAP’s firmware, that’s not great.