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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a common issue with a local ISP that their default wifi router passwords were based on the router's MAC address.

I scanned the wifis I could reach from my flat and found one that was vulnerable. Now I didn't know who that wifi belonged to. I would have had to knock on everyone's door, asking everyone if it's their wifi. Couldn't be bothered doing that and looking stupid doing so.

So instead I logged into their wifi and from there into their router config web page (it also had the default credentials admin/admin) and changed the SSID to [old SSID]_hacked.

The day after they had changed the SSID back and changed the password.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice, that’s actually a pretty clean whitehat way to do it.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Fr, I would have torrent some movies