Why would a vendor ship a wireless router with the wireless disabled?
Secured, yes. Disabled, no.

Seems to me, admittedly a non-coder, a relatively trivial task to make the
device boot into a web screen that prompts the administrator to define a
WPA/WPA2 key when it's first plugged in. Make it so it won't run until this
key is defined.

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Michael Fraase
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> -----Original Message-----
> Why not ship it with wireless disabled, so at least it's not 
> a gaping security hole the minute it's plugged in?