amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
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| Throw 'em out! Who on earth leaves web admin access open on a router? Is this not disabled by default on all of them?
If TW isn't responsible, I'd say the manufacturer is negligent here. Incredibly lame.
One more reason to buy your own equipment, understand it, or at least have a friend/family member help set it up somewhat securely.
WEP aside, leaving web admin access on is just totally pointless for 99% of users, not to mention a much worse thing to leave enabled in comparison. Might as well plug your computer straight in to a modem with no firewall at all...
I'd be buying a modem, and a router, and sending TW the bill until they figure out their equipment. |
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| said by amungus:Who on earth leaves web admin access open on a router? Is this not disabled by default on all of them? If TW isn't responsible, I'd say the manufacturer is negligent here. Incredibly lame. One more reason to buy your own equipment, understand it, or at least have a friend/family member help set it up somewhat securely. WEP aside, leaving web admin access on is just totally pointless for 99% of users, not to mention a much worse thing to leave enabled in comparison. Might as well plug your computer straight in to a modem with no firewall at all... I'd be buying a modem, and a router, and sending TW the bill until they figure out their equipment. HAHA OH MAN DSLR members make me laugh so hard.
You want Customers to actually understand how their equipment works? Priceless.
I think first we should make everyone take "Phishing 101" or at least "Basic computer troubleshooting 101".
I actually had someone call an ethernet cable, no joke, the "internet cable". Take your laptop out down the street in your neighborhood and see how many open wifi APs there are, and how many of those have a default admin username/password. People are so ignorant to computers. In fact me and a friend went around the neighborhood to try to get people alerted to the fact they have an open wifi - no one called us. There is only so much you can do for other people. |
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join:2005-05-17 | Yes, most people are hopelessly ignorant. That doesn't change the fact that people should be more knowledgeable about what they own.
Owning a computer has, frankly, become so widespread that the need to know, really know, how to use one has been overlooked. Like most everything else, it's not a fundamental right, and just buying a computer won't bring you into the modern day or make you tech-savvy. If anything this is an argument that a whole lot fewer people should be owning computers than currently do.
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 VanPremium
join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | What exactly should be learn? Exactly that is....is there some book about what specifically should be learned?
I am interested about what SPECIFICALLY should be made mandatory and what shouldn't |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to amungus
said by amungus:WEP aside, leaving web admin access on is just totally pointless for 99% of users, not to mention a much worse thing to leave enabled in comparison. Might as well plug your computer straight in to a modem with no firewall at all... Maybe someone wants to the change port forwarding remotely so they can VNC into a particular machine on their LAN. Admin screen is obviously passworded. |
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said by Van:What exactly should be learn? Exactly that is....is there some book about what specifically should be learned? I am interested about what SPECIFICALLY should be made mandatory and what shouldn't Lets see for starters:
How to identify a phising email
Basic computer troubleshooting - including BIOS beep codes, Using Windows safe mode, command line intro for both Linux and Windows
Differences and similarities between Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac.
Intro to the Internet 101
Basic programming
I know you asked for specifics, but I wont write the lesson plans for you - you can get a good enough idea from my list.
One may say "Why did you include X?" I felt that those subjects are the most important that came to the top of my head. "Why didn't you include X?" no specific reason, I probably didn't even think about it.
One of my professors, has to get help to change the input on the projector. And they have a doctorate. I mean t's just fundamental subjects like that should be pounded into peoples heads.
Should we state a double standard and say that I should learn the basics in their field? Not necessarily. We use technology on a day-to-day basis do we not? Should we not at least have basic comprehension of the tools that we use in our day-to-day lives? I ask you this. |
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