{"id":10848,"date":"2015-12-27T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T10:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2015-12-27T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T10:20:51","slug":"virgin-media-embarrassed-over-randomly-generated-wifi-ssid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/12\/virgin-media-embarrassed-over-randomly-generated-wifi-ssid.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media User Embarrassed by Randomly Generated WiFi Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has suffered a small bit of mild comical embarrassment after one of the randomly generated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> passwords for their <em>SuperHub<\/em> routers gave one elderly home owner a rather silly network key of (NSFW)..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>.. &#8220;<em>gayfkers<\/em>&#8220;. Naturally the customer in question, or rather her daughter, was<a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2015\/12\/26\/woman-livid-after-gayfkrs-is-set-as-her-elderly-mums-wifi-password-5585549\/\" target=\"_blank\"> less than pleased<\/a> with the password choice: &#8220;<em>Completely disgusted that my elderly mother has her Virgin Wi-Fi installed with THIS as her password?!<\/em>&#8221; The situation was then made worse by the fact that the customer in question claims to have gay relatives, who would no doubt take offence.<\/p>\n<p>However it&#8217;s perhaps not fair to blame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> for this particular problem, not least since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a> passwords are randomly generated (i.e. with 4 million customers something like this was bound to happen eventually), private and can \/ should be changed on the router as soon as you receive it.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed if anything <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s only fault is that the password they generated was not very secure and easy to brute force attack. 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It wouldn&#8217;t have hurt to make it a bit longer too.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the ISP has apologised to the customer and promised to tweak future password generations with a little extra &#8220;<em>quality control<\/em>&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Virgin Media has suffered a small bit of mild comical embarrassment after one of the randomly generated WiFi passwords for their SuperHub routers gave one elderly home owner a rather silly network key of (NSFW)..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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