Subj : A small questionary on ISPs
To   : Jay Harris
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sat Oct 23 2021 11:40:00

Good ${greeting_time}, Jay!

22 Oct 2021 20:51:08, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 Mv>> What can I say? I thought the my ISP provided modem/router was crap,
 Mv>> but this is worse than I ever thought could happen...
 JH> Yeah, I didn't really believe it when my Mom told me that's what
 JH> it does, but sure enough, she was right. While he default SSID is
 JH> gnarly looking, at least the default password isn't insecure.
 JH> To help in that department I made a wifi QR code for her using
 JH> https://qifi.org so that guests can just scan that QR code instead
 JH> of typing in that super long password.

Entering your WiFi prameters on an external resource is a very unwise idea.

echo 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:Muzenirres;P:ds4tN3oxUzku61WD;;' \
| qrencode -s 50 -l H -8 -d 600 -o my_wifi.png

would do everything for you (using the example from the previous message).


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