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Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:32:54 +1100
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:45:32PM -0600, Joe Greco wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:Which goes to show that they just really don't get it when it comes to security. ?Maybe they should look here at all the entries for 'default credentials':Roland, this isn't the home wi-fi market we're talking about. Anyone that's going to buy one of these puppies is going to have a clue about putting their password in.You apparently missed the recent thread on NANOG where this guy was asking for some help with "Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment" ... apparently not everyone has the "clue" you expect them to.
To be fair, he was just asking about factory resetting the device because the current password was unknown, then reconfiguring the device (I'm willing to be generous and assume that the reconfiguration included setting a new, secure password). - Matt
Current thread:
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment, (continued)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Mark Foster (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Matthew Palmer (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Hamelin (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Dobbins, Roland (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Dobbins, Roland (Jan 06)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment George Bonser (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Sean Donelan (Jan 07)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Jason Shearer (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Hamelin (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Matthew Palmer (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Steven Bellovin (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Bjørn Mork (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Ricky Beam (Jan 07)