Comment by DaSHacka
20 hours ago
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.
20 hours ago
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.
The latter is still a security issue, because it means that anyone who had your device before, or was able to photograph the printed password briefly, could still have access to your device. Of course it mitigates a fair bit of the DDoS issue, but is still problematic.