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BT's Wi-Fi Extender works great – at extending your password to hackers

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What's the risk that requires a password change?

It's the WiFi password, not the admin password. In isolation that's a useless piece of data because the hacker won't know where you live. You'd have to stand in a lot of gardens or break into a lot of houses before being able to actually use the stolen password and even then it would only work if the router is set to allow all connections.

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