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A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That's how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don't recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.

I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.

With TP-Link, I would say the bigger concern is that they are reeaaaalllyyy slow to patch vulnerabilities, if they do it at all.

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And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it's powered off.

I would not buy them here or there. I would not buy them anywhere. I do not like appliances with ads. I do not like them Sam-I-Am.

If you're leading an organization that somehow managed to "overhire" 30k employees, then the first person to hit the bricks should be you because you really suck at your job.

It's pretty hard to find a kid that doesn't have Snapchat anymore. Basically being trained to hand over all their personal info to random strangers as soon as they're able to hold a cell phone.

And of course they hide the read messages for the end user to provide the illusion that it's "deleted" which I have to admit is brilliant. Extremely unethical but brilliant.

Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.

It's a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven't quite got it working the way I want it to yet.

We don't need to live in space. Space is not naturally habitable by humans. We just need to stop fucking up the one planet that is.

Well unfortunately the President of the United States is bad at business and the Republicans are ...Republicans. The only thing that matters to either are rich people.

I wonder if this is part of the reason why Cox stopped listing their small business plans and prices online.

And then there's the "promotional discount" that expires after a year or two, requiring you to call back in and threaten to cancel your service before they'll give you back the same price you were already paying. It helps if you actually have other ISP options.

I also think you should not be allowed to abandon your copper infrastructure without offering a replacement. AT&T refuses to offer new DSL service even if they have an old POTS line connected to your house because "we don't do DSL anymore" but I guarantee they would have a problem with it if I ripped their pedistal out of my front yard.