topic Re: WiFi password change - am I paranoid? in Broadband

WiFi password change - am I paranoid?

TotalTOPS — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:15:45 GMT

Recently took delivery of a new Sky Max router.

I immediately wanted to change the WiFi password,I have very good reasons why I need to change it and change it regularly - but it is too traumatic to share those reasons. Enough to say that it is top of my list to change the password.

On my previous router it was possible to change the password from a connected PC with no-one looking over my shoulder and the password was a secret within the four walls of my office.

But on this new router there is no facility to change the password "locally". You have to use the Sky App.

So am I being paranoid - to change the password you connect to the app and make the change somewhere in the cloud or on some Sky server and the new password is stored there and transmitted back to your router. So who is guarding the server and the people who can access the server.

I made a mistake years ago using the delivered password which obviously someone in the delivery chain had recorded. Now all I want to do is keep my password totally private not store it "in the cloud" where it can be seen

Re: WiFi password change - am I paranoid?

jamesn123 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:50:55 GMT

@TotalTOPS

Your right the Sky Max hub's WiFi password is controlled via the My Sky app configuration and is sent via Sky's servers. However its all encrypted and nobody else looks at it. Also someone would have to be phsyically in range of your Sky hub's WiFi to actually use it if they got a hold of it.

Re: WiFi password change - am I paranoid?

TimmyBGood — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:21:34 GMT

@TotalTOPS

The new BT/EE Hub is also administered through an app: that's the way they are all going to go, as much as anything because it gets around the increasing problem of using a web browser to access an embedded web server which has a self-signed SSL certificate.

Realistically there's negligible risk from such an arrangement unless you've seriously upset a state-level security agency or similar adversary, and even then they'd be much more interested in client devices than a router.