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Cisco is still hard-coding passwords into its products (www.thestack.technology)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Static credentials with passwords written into a firewall's code. What could go wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Ya, absolutely. My point was that, we shouldn't assume that vendors are doing things right all the time. So, it's important to have those layered defense, because vendors do stupid stuff like this.