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norwegian
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join:2005-02-15
Outback

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norwegian to daveinpoway

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Re: Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes

said by daveinpoway:

I saw one interesting thing....

....some of them can probably barely understand the web configuration.

To be honest, 75% of the people I know would refuse to mess with the default configuration if it starts working.
'Don't mess with something if it works' motto.
The real world out there should be forced to set pages on loading the box, even if GUI.

'Innocence and ignorance' versus 'sales and low overhead requests'; and you wonder how anyone wins at all.
We end up with daily new occurrences of hardware and software exploits on hardware and software that has a near 1 - 3 year life cycle in stories like this.

How anyone keeps up is beyond me.
daveinpoway
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join:2006-07-03
Poway, CA

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daveinpoway

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You are lucky that around 25% of the people you know are able and willing to configure a router- for the folks I know, the figure is about 10%.

jaykaykay
4 Ever Young
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join:2000-04-13
USA

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jaykaykay

MVM

Most people I know don't know that they can!