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Article on securing your home router
- Thread starter svim
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Many people either don't secure their routers with a password, or they leave it the default "admin" or some stupid password like "12345". Anyone who does that is not only asking to be hacked, they almost deserve it. Come on, people... at least make the hackers work to get in!
Davdi
Android Expert
Quite. You might want to do MAC filtering so only known devices are allowed to connect (You can temporarily turn it off to allow a new device to connect, and add it's MAC address to the whitelist).
Regarding passwords, it's the length that matters more than anything. A minimum length should be 15 characters, longer is better.
And instead of trying to remember a long password, use a passphrase. an example might be: JackAndJillWentUpTheHill(3times)
32 characters and easy to remember, and it includes uppercase, lower case, numerics and special characters.
And, fir domestic use, it's best to write it in a notebook that you keep somewhere safe (Even Bruce Schneier recommends this.)
Regarding passwords, it's the length that matters more than anything. A minimum length should be 15 characters, longer is better.
And instead of trying to remember a long password, use a passphrase. an example might be: JackAndJillWentUpTheHill(3times)
32 characters and easy to remember, and it includes uppercase, lower case, numerics and special characters.
And, fir domestic use, it's best to write it in a notebook that you keep somewhere safe (Even Bruce Schneier recommends this.)
I like the idea of taking the line of a favorite song and using the first letter of each word.
For example: "so ya thought ya might like to go to the show" becomes "sytymltgtts" and then put a number at the beginning and end. Capitalize every other letter for even better security.
But don't use this example, because that's MY password
For example: "so ya thought ya might like to go to the show" becomes "sytymltgtts" and then put a number at the beginning and end. Capitalize every other letter for even better security.
But don't use this example, because that's MY password
svim
Extreme Android User
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Sericon.RouterCheck.client.android&hl=en_US
This 'RouterCheck' app will scan and check your router's setup/configuration, for the most part checking on the same items listed in that article. The user interface could use some polish but it does a nice job at not just stating problems that are found but the possible settings to fix them, along with some good documentation on basic home router terminology.
This 'RouterCheck' app will scan and check your router's setup/configuration, for the most part checking on the same items listed in that article. The user interface could use some polish but it does a nice job at not just stating problems that are found but the possible settings to fix them, along with some good documentation on basic home router terminology.