On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:22:46AM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote:
> This hides the username that is used, not the password/authkey.  Is the
> username private information?

Yes it seems best to avoid exposing these.
We cannot assume that telcos follow best practices of data hygiene.

Quoting naddy@ from earlier in this thread:
[[[
"But ppp isn't a radio..." You don't know the details.  They're in
the process of changing it, but for instance Deutsche Telekom's DSL
used authentication information for PPPoE that would also be the
default access to the online customer account settings.
]]]

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