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#270 Design for safety with Eva PenzeyMoog

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The Impact of Default Passwords on the Internet

A law was passed in California two years ago that prevents companies from using default passwords on their devices. It also prohibits them from doing this when it comes to Wi-Fi routers, but I think it actually propagated to other devices as well. The interesting thing about that law being passed in California, of course, is that why would they make one device somewhere that has a default password and one device for California because they just change all devices to not have a password. So you can just do a search online and find the default password for device. Right? You know that's what it's going to be. Yeah. And I think we now I think there might be different laws. But

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