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Re:FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws by forrestthewoods on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:52PM (#13340083)
> At worse people will change the password and we need to factory reset

Turns out this was a false assumption. We're all learning this the hard way.

All internet enabled devices need to ship with a unique, resettable default password. Many ISP provides modems/routers do this now and it's great.

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Re:FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws by hackuser on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:26PM (#13341265)
> We're all learning this the hard way.

I'd be very disappointed if most HN readers are still learning this.

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