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Old 09-02-2010, 11:03 AM   #25
TomF
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Originally Posted by Strolls View Post
It has no security benefit.

It makes legitimately connecting to your own router less convenient, as this thread has demonstrated.

It's a waste of time, and any effect on security is in giving a false sense of it.
Ditto for long, complicated, many-digit alpha/numeric/symbol passwords. A complete waste of time and inconvenient. Bottom line, no one is going to waste time hacking the average person's home network.
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