Michael Zaleski on 24 Jun 2015 14:31:31 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Home wifi access point & router recommendation

Yes, WPS is bad, even if the router does rate limiting,  UPnP is also not too safe.  http://michaelhorowitz.com/ did a pretty comprehensive presentation about home routers, here's a link to the PDF   https://app.box.com/s/qk0ncah3jl5vk5pxojjt

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:19 PM, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 06/24/2015 05:17 PM, jeff wrote:
> Can't help with recommendations,but AVOID the ones with the One Button
> Setup for local or guest login (WPS?).

oh yeah, good call. WPS is a huge security threat. a lot of routers let
you "disable" it but it's still actually enabled and still easily exploited.

(WPS is, by the way, by far the easiest unauthorized way into a
"protected" wifi network)

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