Secure Your Home Network Against Threats

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Privacy advocate, Sven Taylor over at restoreprivacy.com has published an article on home networks that guides users to check over their device settings.

In today’s world, the typical household is full of technological wonders, all connected in a home network that runs through a router to the internet. You know, that internet that is full of hackers, spies, malware, and who knows what else, all of them just itching to get access to your tech. This has all the makings of a disaster.

That’s why you need to secure your home network. Now.

How to Secure Your Home Network Against Threats

Well worth a read and mull over..

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[Paul T]

Most recent routers should automatically use HTTPS whenever it is supported by the website you are connected to. But if your router is more than two or three years old, or you see messages about your connection not being private when you visit certain web pages, you might need to turn on HTTPS support in the router

This is just not true. Your browser uses https, not the router.
Makes you wonder what else is wrong…

[Edit] Other things on that site are also wrong, e.g.

(KeePass) Must use plugins to sync between devices

cheers, Paul

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LOL yeah, well spotted. Browser/router keyword flatulence.
[EDIT} Article has now been edited, HTTPS section removed.

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Myst

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On the other hand, router settings accessed through http should give an option under “Connectivity” to switch from http to https. I don’t see anything mentioned in this article about accessing the router settings through the browser. Does anyone have any feedback for this?

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The router is on your local network so http is fine.
https is to prevent snooping / attacks on data on the internet.

cheers, Paul

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Myst wrote:

accessing the router settings through the browser

You access the router by its IP address like http://192.168.1.1/. Check router’s manual.

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Myst

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Indeed. Like PaulT said, it’s on my local network so no problem. I needed that reminder from him. 🙃

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Not the best article. No glaring mistakes like first pointed out above, but at the margins the advice could be greatly improved. Clearly written by an amateur. And, who wrote it? On the website home page it lists the author as HEINRICH LONG however on the page for the article itself, the author is Sven Taylor.

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