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Saving passwords

Saving passwords

Posted Oct 3, 2010 13:27 UTC (Sun) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
Parent article: BruCON: How to take over the world by breaking into embedded systems

Frankly, what's the big deal with asking the user to save the password for their router to a text file. Sure, it's theoretically not secure, but it saves on support calls and vastly superior to the current situation. 99% of people will never use it anyway.

That said, the last router I received indeed had the wireless password written on a sticker underneath the device. Very useful.


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