Re: [TSCM-L] Default Password List

From: <d..._at_geer.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:15:10 -0400

"James M. Atkinson" writes:
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 | When you are performing sweeps be sure to check the clients equipment
 | for someone not changing the default or factory supplied passwords to
 | something that is more secure. This is a really serious issue,
 | because an eavesdropper can use these well published, and well
 | documented passwords to access and control your clients systems.
 |

My Dad was a bookeeper. Three times in his career,
when he was told the combination to the company safe
it was the default show-room combination -- some
ditty like "two bit, six bits, four bits, five"
which is not it but you get the idea. Apparently,
at least in his time, safes all had a default
combination which he said was commonplace and
intended to prevent embarassment on show-room
floors if, for walk-in models, a customer got
himself locked in one.

Hearsay, but parallel.

--dan
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