The Home Network
Field Guide · 6 Chapters · For Everyone Who Has Ever Unplugged and Replugged
Incoming transmission
Your router is running 24/7, connected to every device you own, with its WAN interface internet-facing, even if inbound traffic is usually filtered by default. And the admin password may still be a default, reused, or label-printed credential that anyone nearby can read.
One network was compromised not by some elite hacker but by a neighbor who guessed the Wi-Fi password (it was the street address). The printer, the PRINTER, was the entry point.
The home network is where most people's security story begins and ends. This manual gives you the whole picture: what's in the box, how it all connects, why your signal sucks in the bathroom, and how to not be the easiest target on the block.
6 chapters. One restart probably required.
— Commander Shepard
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