<div dir="ltr">Correlation != Causality, although there's certainly a strong correlation between cheap networking gear and questionable deployment decisions. A person who would deploy gear on defaults would definitely think it's a great idea to buy Mikrotik.<div>
<br></div><div style>The reverse may be less true, but I'll leave it to the list as to whether or not these two independent decisions are examples of the same thing.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Karl Auer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 14:09 +1100, Jeffrey Sims wrote:<br>
> Agree with the comment on Mikrotik, supported a client who was given it as<br>
> part of a "building ISP service" and it got hacked because the client (who<br>
> had only recently started using our services) left everything as default.<br>
> So every google search got pointed to the 789.youdou website spam system.<br>
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</div>Soooo - if they'd installed a Cisco and left everything at the defaults<br>
this would not have happened?<br>
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Regards, K.<br>
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