On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > An option I saw years ago (I forgot on whose equipment) was a default > password which was a function of the equipment's serial number. So you > had to have the algorithm and you needed the serial number which was not > related to the MAC. So if you didn't have physical access, you were not > in a good position to learn the password. > > I suspect this was a support nightmare for the vendor and I bet they > went to a more standard (read: the same) factory password. > > At the end of the day, minimizing support costs for the vendor (not to > mention likely annoyance for the customer) trumps providing "default" > security for the folks who won't change the default password.
The MyFi apparently does this. According to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07pogue.html "The network password is printed right there on the bottom of the MiFi itself." --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
