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by elmo2you 2541 days ago
It's definitely a good development that ISPs have started to deploy routers and modems with randomized passwords. However, please do keep in mind the deployment of consumer equipment and enterprise hardware is different. Or at least it should be, in theory.

Enterprise equipment is usually not supposed to be just dropped into place, without oversight. It usually needs proper configuration/management, by qualified people.

Whether this also happens in practice can be a different story altogether. Still, the security of enterprise equipment usually involves more policy and procedure than it does with consumer equipment. With the latter, security has to come more or less by default, because the people handling the devices usually have little expert knowledge.