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router login info displayed on my echo
Just installed the XR500, used the same loign data as my Last router from Asus so all devices could connect easily. After getting it up and running my Echo Show has the NETGEAR Login data displaye...
No.. brand new out of the box. i pulled my AC3100 (bricked on their BIOS update), connected cables, and upstream network. Sat down at my desk and ran the router setup.. nothing more. once it came back up i was a happy guy!, so mad at Asus :-( didn't even notice what was displayed on my echo until the next day, but when i saw it i thought.. odd.. that looks familair .. Ah f*#! how did that happen. My info had been displayed openly in my living room for 12 hours.
I will keep an eye on it.. and see if it happens, or interacts with the echo again. I don't get it.
Glad ASUS has recovery process for routers.
Possible Amazon Echo issue as well. Shouldn't be displayed on any IoT devices though who knows what IoT Mfrs are doing to break into privacy. :smileymad:
- Keep us updated! Not quite sure why it happened if the setup wizard had been completed successfully.
Commodity vs. usability vs. security. "Alexa, what is my wireless password?" resp. OK Google, ask Netgear, what is my wireless password?".
But seriously Netduma Netduma-Fraser Netduma_Jack & Co.: What is riding you to show the admin password - no matter in plain or hidden (and in a way that it can be made visible) - on a non-authenticated captured portal Web page? This must _never_: happen. To much commodity!
- This is a Netgear feature so I'll pass that on to the team for them to take a look at.
- Ah. Recovery would be great if it worked.
:-(
