Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

[Graeme Fowler <graeme () graemef net>]

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 15:12 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Lots of gear has a button/jumper/pop_the_CMOS battery/other_physical_presence_magic to reset things to factory state, 
> including the default pw.  The threat went on to why default passwords are bad, to passwords on the bottom of the 
> device, to RFIDs because the devices of interest to this community are racked and stacked -- and back to theme #2: 
> default passwords are bad...

And somewhere in the dim and distant past (Jan 6th), Nathan announced
that he'd sorted out his original problem and now had the defaults.

What a peculiar bunch we are. And this from the group lauded as
anonymously and peacefully co-existing to hold the Internet together,
eh?

Graeme