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Whaaa? Serial numbers are not secret, and no one should be regarding them as secret. Where did you get this idea?
by nknighthb 13y ago
Whaaa? Serial numbers are not secret, and no one should be regarding them as secret. Where did you get this idea?
- MertsA 13y agoHe's talking about some FiOS combo modem/router. Not sure about FiOS specifically but with DOCSIS modems everyone snooping on the line can see the MAC address but if you want to query the modem for something "privileged" like SNMP access back when certain modems would let you do that yourself you needed to know the serial number to authenticate yourself. So yeah generally the serial number isn't anything special but for cable modems it is supposed to be secret and I know Cox in particular also use the serial number as the WiFi key.