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I'm wondering if anyone could tell me the significance of this: NETGEAR00mdMANiciNK803manicink803 ? This was data harvested from a keylogger on my child's phone but she wasn't supposed to be gone f...
Was she trying to guess a wifi password?
Yours?
A neighbors?
You could just ask her.
2021-07-16 09:03 AM
I have asked her and she says her phone was hacked, I highly doubt that but no ita not the neighbors wifi. She's barley 15 and already been in trouble sending photos to a guy that had to be my age (43),hence the keylogger on her phone now.
I have asked her and she says her phone was hacked, I highly doubt that but no ita not the neighbors wifi. She's barley 15 and already been in trouble sending photos to a guy that had to be my age (43),hence the keylogger on her phone now.
> NETGEAR00mdMANiciNK803manicink803
A typical Netgear router comes from the factory with default
wireless-network credentials:SSID: NETGEAR<xx>
Passphrase: <word1><word2><xxx>where "<xx>" is a two-digit decimal number, "<word1>" and "<word2>" are
two commmon (lower case?) English words, and "<xxx>" is a three-digit
decimal number.One interpretation of that mess would be that someone was trying to
connect to a Netgear wireless router (which was still using its default
wireless-network credentials). Possibly with some fumbling or wrong
guesses.> [...] not the neighbors wifi. [...]
I haven't recently tried to prey on jail-bait, so I know nothing, but
I can imagine a car-powered router which temporarily becomes a neighbor.
> [...] hence the keylogger on her phone now.I don't envy you your technology battle with an opponent who has
almost unlimited time. I'd be tempted to confiscate the phone, but I
wouldn't expect that to be fool-proof, either. (You have better control
over it than you would over its (covert) replacement.)