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Register-Orbi-damned: Netgear account order irks infosec bods

DropBear

"If you really think you need to mange your network infrastructure from a cell phone over the internet"

Not necessarily. I don't know the exact circumstances of his specific piece of kit and its app, but generally speaking there seems to be a trend towards making routers configurable through a smartphone directly connected to their WiFi hotspot, which is indeed a bit less hassle than the traditional "unplug your PC, reconfigure it to 192.168..., plug it into the router and configure it, restore your original IP on your PC, etc...". That does not immediately imply said app is connecting to said router trough the internet or that the router even has any configuration interfaces open to the internet by default - it might, but it may well not. Of course, none of that requires one to register, so that part here might be linked with remote access - or it might just be marketing greed. Still, it's not really clear cut...

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