Re: 3 Letters In the spy world Hanlon is a cover.
"A thumb down for not reading up on governments and their latest spy efforts."
The government efforts have generally been more sophisticated than "use a static password for the root account when the device is sent from the factory".
a) its fairly easy to discover
b) its fairly easy to fix
There has been a long running history of manufacturers assuming that nobody will know the root/superuser password AND having no sensible precautions to prevent it being exploited (i.e. locking it down to console access only).
And these methods are routinely used by support techs to troubleshoot issues...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
