Re: we need the public to become educated in the tools they are using and what can be installed
Unlike El Reg and its commentards, not everybody devotes their whole life to being a tech expert. IMO, pins set by default would help those normal people.
Normal? Round here we call them muggles....
In all seriousness, just what is 'Normal'? Pins set by default will help with the current issue, but there are a fair number of other issues in general with your 'normal' people not giving two fucks about security. So that issue still needs to be addressed, which means those 'normal's need to start giving at least half-a-fuck and making the effort to understand some of the tech.
Knowing why it's a good idea to have a PIN set should absolutely never be the realm of 'tech expert's.
Whether a law is needed is doubtful. Better just have the manufacturers set the unique PIN by agreement.
Unique being the key there, if the default PIN is 1234 then we end up worse off than now (as most of those 'normal' users will leave the default).
I do actually agree with you, just resent your use of the word 'normal' (even though I am not, and never have been 'normal' and proudly so).
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