[120912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Jan 6 04:03:32 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:57:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <11B064048F34FD4094CBA16FC04BE219864BC3D6@ex01>
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On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
> I must not have been very clear. I'm resetting these switches to factory=
defaults using the hardware reset button, and attempting to log in using w=
hatever the factory default passwords are.=20
Right - what I'm saying is the fact that there are default passwords at all=
is horribly insecure, and that the vendor in question should be prodded to=
change this dangerous practice.
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