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>Edit to add: HOSTNAME INCLUDES THE FULL SERIAL. I thought I'd take a second look at this and just pulled up the client info for the PW2 Gateway on my network,
by astronautjones 7y ago
>Edit to add: HOSTNAME INCLUDES THE FULL SERIAL. I thought I'd take a second look at this and just pulled up the client info for the PW2 Gateway on my network, and hostname is 11XXXXX-00-J--S$(SERIAL). So no local physical access it required, the gateway itself just broadcasts the whole serial, which in light of this is an, interesting, decision. I can confirm that using the hostname with an added S at the front (so on mine serial was T[...], I used the password ST[...]) I was able to connect to the WiFi spot, and in turn to the management page described. Incredible.
this is staggeringly irresponsible design! thanks for the confirmation
- xoa 7y agoI guess in practice it doesn't really matter much anyway because while my serial doesn't specifically follow the format described in the link it'd still be utterly trivial to brute force. So that they leak the whole thing onto LAN anyway just turns it into even more of a joke, but I guess would rarely make a real difference. Some of the HN crowd have security monitoring on their own networks that would detect suspicious hammering patterns, have more device isolation, etc, but I strongly suspect the vast, vast majority of PW installs are pure ISP default setting CPE environments. Using crummy default password routers full of their own holes too!