Are people still this tech dumb?

[BlobVanDam]

My password is 15 characters, upper and lowercase letters, and numbers. I can never remember it. I have to check my router settings every time I want to add a new device.

 

[Aragorn]

I don't even know my wifi password. It was an automatically generated series of letters and numbers, like 24 characters long. So I have to log into the router to look it up.

 

[Rincewiend]

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

Just take a look...

 

[ares93]

Just to point out, WPA-PSK can easily be cracked. If you want to be asolutely safe opt for WPA2. i have yet to manage to break through that, and im pretty good at it. Comes with the job i guess.(computer security student and network admin)

 

[the skullcowboy]

I think this underscores what the OP was saying...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011...cores-wi-fi-privacy-risks/?test=faces#content

 

[Holdfast]

^How ironic! My password is "18 characters long and it consists of a mixture of upper and lower case letters and some numbers.". Typing that whole thing is a bitch.

Memorable, though!

I don't even know my wifi password. It was an automatically generated series of letters and numbers, like 24 characters long. So I have to log into the router to look it up.

Perhaps proving the thread's essential point, is this the same as the wackily long "key" printed on the router that you have to enter onscreen to add a new device to the network?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, I changed the key on the bottom of my router to one of my own. The key on my router is only 8 characters long.

 

[Aragorn]

I don't even know my wifi password. It was an automatically generated series of letters and numbers, like 24 characters long. So I have to log into the router to look it up.

Perhaps proving the thread's essential point, is this the same as the wackily long "key" printed on the router that you have to enter onscreen to add a new device to the network?

No, I generated the password myself, I just don't know what it is without looking first.

 

[Sector 7]

In my experience many of the people who are very "computer savvy" are the same people that cannot change a flat tire, replace a car battery or change the oil in their car.

Cars are technology too and there are people who drive every day who are every bit as clueless about their automobile as some people are about their computer. I submit that knowing how your car works is much more important...especially if you find your self broken down on the side of the road.

QFT!!

I'm a System Admin but I also enjoy modifying cars. I installed a Greddy Turbo with intercooler in my last car. Fast cars and fast computers - nothing more fun!

Congratulations on being the exception, rather than the rule.

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the US homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents....

Yeaahhhh. Well written opening Mr. AP guy. Not at all filled with hyperbole, stretches of the truth or most likely out-right wrong in that all. Well within the standards the AP tries to set for journalism nation-wide.

Oh, you were there? As a former police officer, I can tell you that IS most likely what happened. It happens much more often that people believe.

 

[ares93]

^ i can also vouch for that. After all i had to break a chair on the cop's back in order to stop him from pointing his smg at my friends seven year old sister. Diplomacy my ass, all those guys know is violence. Damn i hate swat.

 

[Trekker4747]

My password is 18 characters long and it consists of a mixture of upper and lower case letters and some numbers.

Amazing! That's what I use on my briefcase!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't even know my wifi password. It was an automatically generated series of letters and numbers, like 24 characters long. So I have to log into the router to look it up.

Perhaps proving the thread's essential point, is this the same as the wackily long "key" printed on the router that you have to enter onscreen to add a new device to the network?

No, I generated the password myself, I just don't know what it is without looking first.

I use 1Password to generate and store every password I need. It's probably the most massively useful program I've ever bought.

 

[think]

http://www.dvdrewinder.com/

 

[Sector 7]

^ i can also vouch for that. After all i had to break a chair on the cop's back in order to stop him from pointing his smg at my friends seven year old sister. Diplomacy my ass, all those guys know is violence. Damn i hate swat.

That is one of the reasons I quit. Many were too eager to use force first... even before thinking of the consequences. I'd had enough violence during combat; I became a police officer To Protect and Serve, but became disillusioned when I realized many officers were violent, wife-beaters and worse. (The second reason was the good ole boy network. As long as you were one of them, you got all the breaks... if not, you worked all the crap shifts and jobs.)

So, I became a bodyguard and made 4 times as much money and was able To Protect and Serve the protectees/clients... not to mention all the free vacation travel and benefits!

 

[Captain_Nick]

.. is this usual that people are still this dumb when it comes to new technologies

I certainly hope so. Wardriving would be be a lot less fun if everyone secured their wifis