Router Passwords

[C-Dawg]

When you receive your router from Sky, it comes with a secure password of lower/upper/numbers on a piece of paper.

Question: Apart from being stored in the router and on this paper, is a copy of the password held anywhere else?

Reason for the question: If the password is held by Sky/Vendor and they are hacked, all users will have a false sense of security around thier password secuirty

[TimmyBGood]

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@C-Dawg wrote:

Reason for the question: If the password is held by Sky/Vendor and they are hacked, all users will have a false sense of security around thier password secuirty

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In the event of a significant data breach, ISP subscribers might have more immediate things to worry about than the possibility that someone could sit outside their house and use their WiFi; )

Remember the password is only useful within wireless range: it's not usable for remote access under default Hub settings.

Anyway, these days companies on the scale of Sky are pretty good at encrypting such information at rest.