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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 143 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What's better is that, thanks to Elon Musk, "STINKY" is the default name for its Starlink wifi. These people didn't even change that.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-starlink-wifi-stinky

[-] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

Don’t worry! I’m sure the default username and password didn’t get changed either.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

They did, because they were charging people for access to it.

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago
[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He’s so weird~~ly childish~~.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

Can't speak to starlink specifically, but I know some shittier router brands would often reset to factory defaults every time you updated the firmware. Can easily see starlink doing that with a pushed firmware with the expectation some additional cell phone app would restore the correct settings.

So they very well might have turned off broadcasting but it got popped back on while they were on shift and it was detected.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

Nah, Starlink doesn’t reset the Wi-Fi SSID for a firmware update.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Hmm I got Starlink earlier this year and I don’t remember it having a default. I think it asked me to set the ssid immediately.

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