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Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today

Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today

Posted Dec 20, 2009 23:27 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today by smipi1
Parent article: Best Buy, Samsung, And Westinghouse Named In SFLC Suit Today

It probably wouldn't be a great stretch to set up different units with their own randomly-generated root passwords. For example, AVM does it for WPA keys on the FRITZ!Box (a WLAN router/telephony appliance). That way, a would-be cracker couldn't trivially use their own device's root password to compromise other people's devices.


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