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   Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 04:42:40 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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   @GossiTheDog Yes well, can you imagine the bureaucratic hassle involved in correctly and accurately recording a separate password for each device, and making sure it can be found in fifteen years' time next time someone needs to change the programming?

   Password control doesn't sound like a very clever design choice to me, given how impractical it would be in real life to change the default password.

   So ... in real life, if the password were changed then legitimate people making legitimate configuration changes would have to fall back on sticking a pin up the factory reset hole to get the default password back. And ... guess what ... the hacker could do that too!

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   egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:16:10 JST egregious philbin

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   Okay, so. I was able to log into the Guix install on this laptop, because I reset my password after logging into a virtual terminal as root, which I was allowed to do with no password whatsoever, despite the installer asking me for a root password.

   So, uh.... be aware of that, I guess.