[120970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Jan 6 23:46:27 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: joe@nethead.com (Joe Hamelin)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:45:32 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <79db6ae1001062038r10c155ddp86f775bcda41da75@mail.gmail.com> from
"Joe Hamelin" at Jan 06, 2010 08:38:49 PM
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
... JG
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