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U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The Commerce Department has proposed barring sales of TP-Link products, citing a national security risk from ties to China, people familiar with the matter said.

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[โ€“] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That's how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don't recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.

I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.

[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Honestly, even limiting it to, say, the WiFi network, having a default admin login is not great.

Like, Android isolates apps from the rest of your Android system, but not from touching the rest of the network. If any random app I install on my phone can reflash my WAP's firmware or something like that, that's not great.