Just leave it out there, but enable security. WPA for sure, as WEP
has been compromised for years. Change the admin account
credentials to something secure. Use good password practices (8
character minimum, a mix of numbers, upper/lower case letters and
characters, no dictionary words.)
Mark Minasi has for years told people to use a passphrase and
recommends at least 14 characters. At that point, the passphrase
takes so long to crack that it makes little difference if you use
special characters and case change.
www.minasi.com/
On AD, I turn off the complexity requirement, but change the length
requirement to 14 characters. No problems so far.
A couple years ago, a vendor required that we open up a new server to
them. Almost immediately some hackers started banging on the server
(brute force attack) trying to crack it. We watched it for several
days while the banging went on. Then we got tired of watching and
changed the outside access to specific IP numbers only. That shut
off the hack attempts. But for over 2 weeks of continuous banging,
the long password held.
In 2003 or so Minasi said 14 characters would take over a year to
crack. With faster computers, i assume that has shortened now, but
16 or 18 or 21 characters will hold longer.
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