I know at least a couple of hackers who cracked other people's wifi, and used a yagi to not just crack their their closest neighbour but someone a bit further away (for safety).
Last time I ran the numbers an ISP default pattern password for ISPs around where I live (assuming perfect randomness within the ISP's pattern) was like $70 on Google Cloud GPUs (with half that on average).
And if your wifi has a default pattern SSID, then it probably has a default pattern password.
$70 is not atrociously high cost for a "last mile" security hop.
And if you have a botnet already then it's free.
These are people who would crack your wifi for the lulz (and have the stolen capacity to do it), get your house raided because they hack companies from behind your Internet connection...
... and then are stupid enough to when they hack and get access to a sensitive government database run a search for their own fucking name... and members of their family.
Last time I ran the numbers an ISP default pattern password for ISPs around where I live (assuming perfect randomness within the ISP's pattern) was like $70 on Google Cloud GPUs (with half that on average).
And if your wifi has a default pattern SSID, then it probably has a default pattern password.
$70 is not atrociously high cost for a "last mile" security hop.
And if you have a botnet already then it's free.
These are people who would crack your wifi for the lulz (and have the stolen capacity to do it), get your house raided because they hack companies from behind your Internet connection...
... and then are stupid enough to when they hack and get access to a sensitive government database run a search for their own fucking name... and members of their family.