[120917] 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 04:30:58 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:26:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE081F716D@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
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On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:24 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> having physical access pretty much trumps any other security measure.=20
The fact that there's a factory default means that lots of folks won't chan=
ge it when they configure the unit with an IP address; they follow this wit=
h failing to implement iACLs, and it's pw3nt1me!
;>
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