Timeline for Can a neighbour who installed my router access it?
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| Dec 18, 2014 at 11:19 | vote | accept | Kenny | ||
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | Buttle Butkus | @GroundZero "it'll automaticly reappear the moment he connects again". Yes, that was my point. That would be a way for him to tell if the neighbor is connecting, if the router doesn't already tell him when the last connection was. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 22:32 | comment | added | BlueCacti | @njzk2 Depends on the store you go to. Some stores require that you have some technical knowledge. In smaller franchise stores, you'll practicly always have someone with decent knowledge about the device. I always managed to get clerks with decent technical knowledge, even in the bigger retailers in my neighborhood. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 22:29 | comment | added | BlueCacti | @ButtleButkus I wonder how many people proactivly check the connected devices on the router's administration page. You can always delete the device (on most devices), but i'll automaticly reappear the moment he connects again, as nothing has changed to the network's security settings. You could ofc ban his MAC address, which will cost him some extra effort to get on the network again (i.e. change MAC address) | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | Buttle Butkus | Also note that you might be able to tell if he is connecting to your wifi. You would log into your router as described in this answer and look for the place where it shows connected devices and their assigned internal IP addresses (192.168.x.x). You might see "neighbor's laptop" or something like that. It might show last connection time or not. But I think you can delete the device. If he connects again, it will reappear in the list. Otherwise it will stay gone. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | njzk2 |
ask a store clerk. I would never recommend anyone to ever do that. A lot of them are not trained for that, and you can never really know how much they know and how much they pretend to know unless you know yourself. (don't get me wrong, there are some very competent clerks who actually care about getting you the best product for your need. But if you can distinguish them from the other kind, you don't actually need them).
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | @JamesRyan: Most of the attacks described in this answer are stuff that the neighbor could do just by reading the router's manual and using its built-in administration and monitoring features. (Intercepting network traffic e.g. for password sniffing is a bit trickier, but still doable using off-the-shelf / FOSS tools and a bit of technical knowledge.) Creating and installing backdoored custom firmware requires significantly more skills and effort in comparison, and so is a much less likely attack scenario, at least unless your neighbor is actually a government agent spying on you. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 14:17 | comment | added | JamesRyan | If the neighbour was that bothered about getting your data he could have put a custom firmware on it too. Changing passwords/factory reset doesn't undo that. One step further if you are really paranoid is a backdoor at hardware level, which would even survive the firmware being replaced. It all depends on what extent you think they would go to and how much do you distrust them. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 9:18 | comment | added | Dennis Jaheruddin | Small practical hint: If your neighbor did not do anything malicious, all he can see is the wifi name. Therefore I would actually recommend you to keep that name the same so you won't offend him unnecesarily by showing that he did your setup for nothing. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 7:03 | comment | added | David Z | +1 with emphasis on the part that talks about trust. In my mind that's the core of the issue (i.e. this is one of those social problems, not technical). | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 5:48 | comment | added | Robotnik | Some routers have the router's IP address and the default administrator username/password written on the back. Just another way to find it without having to use Command Prompt :) | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 3:57 | comment | added | user2428118 | If there's a WPS PIN written on the router, make sure to disable WPS as well. Actually, you should always disable WPS as it has a design flaw that renders it vulnerable to attacks. | |
| S Dec 15, 2014 at 0:01 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2014 at 23:21 | comment | added | Bobson | @nyuszika7h - Most routers I've seen let you expose it, but don't by default. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 18:51 | comment | added | user45655 | "Most routers have an online administrator page that can be accessed externally by visiting your public IP" Do you have any sources to verify that claim? Some routers might expose that page, but in my experience, most of them don't. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 16:51 | history | edited | BlueCacti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2014 at 16:46 | history | answered | BlueCacti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |