• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yes, it should be. Sending someone a device with usr/pwd as admin/admin, for example, is completely reckless if it doesn’t prompt the user to change it during setup.

    it’s the first thing they tell you in computer training.

    You shouldn’t need specialist training to use basic home products, and you shouldn’t have to put up with extremely compromised security in the event of you not being technically-minded. Not everyone is, can, or should be.

    Plenty of products have protections in place designed to protect users in the realistic event that not everything will be used flawlessly 100% of the time.

    PCs aren’t shipped to you with always-on root-level access, gas hobs often have features to turn themselves off if they detect they’ve not been ignited, cars have all kinds of safety features, pills come in pop-packs to discourage taking a load at once by swigging a bottle, etc.