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How do you secure your wifi? Is it safe to leave it open or are you using a password and if so why?
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Everett
I informed the support agent that we weren't the ones downloading the movies, and they were shocked to find out that our wifi wasn't secured and then immediately placed a password on it and then reactivated the service. They said that the next time they get another notice they would turn off all services, regardless of whether or not we were the ones downloading the movies.
Lesson learned! From now on, I always set up a password, and the password is a bunch of special characters. Our internet service provider only allows like 16 character passwords which is insane, and they should allow more. If they are serious about security there should be no limit on the password length. It may be the router or modem or whatever system that allows only 16 characters, but it should be updated as 16 characters in my eyes is not enough for security! A couple of years ago my Wifi was unsecured due to getting a modem and router and I forgot to enable a password for it. A couple months down the road our internet service was disabled, and I was curious as to why so I called my internet service provider. They informed me that there was many illegal downloads, and that some movie companies sent an infringement notice of some kind due to someone downloading tons of movies via a torrent downloader. I informed the support agent that we weren't the ones downloading the movies, and they were shocked to find out that our wifi wasn't secured and then immediately placed a password on it and then reactivated the service. They said that the next time they get another notice they would turn off all services, regardless of whether or not we were the ones downloading the movies. Lesson learned! From now on, I always set up a password, and the password is a bunch of special characters. Our internet service provider only allows like 16 character passwords which is insane, and they should allow more. If they are serious about security there should be no limit on the password length. It may be the router or modem or whatever system that allows only 16 characters, but it should be updated as 16 characters in my eyes is not enough for security!
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