Comment by DaSHacka
1 day ago
At that point, you should force the pain on the individual themselves. Why should all of us be handicapped because there's a couple morons that can't set decent passwords and connect their devices directly to the internet?
Even if the device removed the capability for passwords and used key based authentication, connecting it directly to the internet means if there's ever a vulnerability, all that was for naught anyway.
This is the way, there should be no access by default, then on first access the user has to setup their desired authentication details, and if they want passwords, then they get a randomly generated one, not one they choose. There should also be a factory reset button too.
Exactly, and fwiw most manufacturers have moved to this model by now, or using randomly generated passwords printed on the physical device itself, in the case of routers.