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I just don't understand why companies are still pulling this crap. It puts their customers at risk.

• bigiain 13y ago
  Because their customers are the pointy-haired-bosses who're asking "Why the hell to we need to wait for them to send a service tech out? Why can't they fix this online?" when shit is actually going down - rather than the network/storage/security guys who point out the risks of things that haven't happened yet.
  • drdaeman 13y ago
    Yea, but techies should at least use PKI with HSM guarding the private key, not 7-char almost-dictionary-based password.
    • DavidBradbury 13y ago
      But it has numbers replacing the letters! That makes it hard for computers to guess!!!
      • drdaeman 13y ago
        Oh, right. Sounds like the pointy-haired boss decided upon the password himself.
• CrLf 13y ago
  Well, so I won't tell you about the vendors that give you the stare if you change the root password on their devices from the factory default. Like, "You changed the sysadmin password? Why?" ~sigh~