a user set weak password is infinitly more strong than a known default.
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Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK
thbb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Usually, an impact study is made before such type of laws are made:
- if this law is enacted, how much will it cost to the manufacturers to update their factory settings?
- how many users will get stuck when losing the unique ID of the device, what are the recovery procedures, how costly is it to end users?
- how many users will be protected by the measure and what cost for society does it represent?
- how many users will set a dumb password anyhow and what is the cost for society?
I’d be curious to see the impact study, as many of those are actually botched.
metaStatic@kbin.social 10 months ago
AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 months ago
That makes a strong password a million times infinite strong.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 10 months ago
Most routers already have non-standard passwords by default. At least in EU. I’m not sure which devices besides routers and IoT peripherals are affected by this bill.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All of them I’ve seen do use non-standard passwords for the web access portion, however it’s been a mixed bag for the admin controls on the router OS itself. It’s often just admin/admin.
Which is crazy. I could, if I were inclined, log into the router in someone’s house/business if they haven’t changed the admin password, but they have provided me with a password to access the web. Most people don’t bother changing the admin password.