{"id":5531,"date":"2019-09-27T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:19:12","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>As others suggest, it&#39;s most likely whatever password they setup the router with in the first place &#8211; which means <em>you<\/em> never changed it to prevent this from happening<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s possible it wasn&#39;t customer-alterable, but your ISP &quot;knowing&quot; your wifi password is <em>nothing<\/em> at all like &quot;My ISP is storing wifi passwords in plain text&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d lay pretty good odds that either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all routers they setup use the same password<\/li>\n<li>they&#39;re just telling you whatever was printed on the back of the router<\/li>\n<li>all routers they setup use a standard <em>format<\/em> for the password (eg Insight in Lexington KY, prior to being bought-out by TWC, used to use part of your physical address as the password)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>September 27, 2019 at 09:11AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/security\/comments\/d9zvds\/my_isp_is_storing_wifi_passwords_in_plain_text\/f1mbfd4?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As others suggest, it&#39;s most likely whatever password they setup the router with in the first place &#8211; which means you never changed it to prevent this from happening It&#39;s possible it wasn&#39;t customer-alterable, but your ISP &quot;knowing&quot; your wifi password is nothing at all like &quot;My ISP is storing wifi passwords in plain text&quot;. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=5531\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5532,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}