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by ethbr1 865 days ago
"Shipped dumb by default" is enticing as a legal requirement.

Have a colorful switch to enable it, whatever.

But poor security posture out of the box, for a questionably-supported, poorly-developed, long-lived physical device seems important enough to mandate slight one-time inconvenience.

In the future, this bullshit is going to be looked back at like default passwords on ISP WAPs.