On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:23:43 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> The whole world?
>
> That would be me and just who?
>
> No one else is on the network
>
This may be teaching grandma to suck eggs, but... are you sure - IOW do
you know that your external LAN interface is secure? Have you tested it?

A surprising number of them aren't, having 'features' such as exposing
their admin port to the outside world as well as to the LAN and default
admin passwords which a lot of people never change.

I hardened mine so that, according to Gibson Research Labs Shields-Up
tool [*], it now leaves nothing visible to the outside world.  This
required configuration changes from its default setup as well as a
password change.

[*]  https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2


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