A router security cheat sheet

There are a lot of knobs to tweak when making a home router as secure as possible. I keep a pretty comprehensive checklist of router security features on my RouterSecurity.org website. 

But that list is targeted at techies. Non-techies need a simpler list with just the most important things to do/check/change. I mention this because on the August 13th episode of his Tech Guy radio show, Leo Laporte boiled down the router security list a bit too much. 

In response to Tom from Huntington Beach, Laporte said "the only thing you really need to do is turn on WPA2 encryption ... Turn it on and give it a password that isn't obvious."

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