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A comment on FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Companies Will Likely Ignore. Parent comment

Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:55PM (#37436164)
Because of security reasons they're reverting to a default password? That has to be the most insane thing I've read in a while...
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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by charles_f on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:09PM (#37436345)
Yeah, that was my answer

> “for security reasons” is a pretty bad reason to reset the password to a default 8 characters printed under the box!

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