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Do you have the self service thing in Sweden? Granted I’m not a telia customer here in FIN, but have never seen this kind of functionality on my own home routers. Plain router admin always.

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Telia routers in Sweden can be managed remotely from Telias web page. I don't mean port forward, but some other channel talk between admin tool on their website and the router. (You can also connect locally on the LAN and admin the router that way.)

Tangentially related Swedish bork:

https://medium.com/@rikardhjort/2-7-medical-calls-breached-i...

It's the same with Telia Estonia.

And they use dropbear to connect to the router to do changes from remote/customer service/online customer portal, if you're curious (you can see it in logs of the router, Inteno ones)

I couldn't find it on the web site, but I found something similar here:

https://apps.apple.com/se/app/telia-smart-wifi/id1459248896

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teliacompa...

They allow login with BankID (Swedish authentication system using Personal Identity Number) or a Telia login, implying I don't need the admin password printed on the back of the router so it ought to use the same type of backdoor I'd expect support personal has and the Lithuanian web site has.

Judging by the comments of both apps though, it seems it doesn't work at all... maybe they need to add more than 5 PHP workers.

Well, it is risky hiring workers in Sweden.. if you don’t need them anymore it’s difficult to get rid of them!

This is just plain wrong. There are many ways to handle such a situation. One would be "visstidsanställning" which is employment for a pre-determined period.

Sure, you can work around the labour laws in many ways, but he is likely referring to a normal full time employment contract as most people do when they talk about employment.

And he's not wrong in the figurative way, the labour laws are quite strict and the unions are in an impossibly strong standing in Sweden.

Funny how everyone missed the fact I was suggesting firing PHP workers, which are a background processes in PHP servers..

You can fire people if you don't need them (don't have enough work for them), that's called arbetsbrist and is the most common reason for firing people in sweden. You just can't turn around and hire other people for the same job right after.

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