Why are the default credentials in the realm attribute?

Recently, I was poking around on Shodan (as I do when I am bored) and I stumbled across an interesting query.  If you search for “Default: admin/1234”, you get over 14,000 devices that are broadcasting their own default username and password.  The devices appear to be Edimax routers.  I reached out to both EmbedThis and Edimax to ask them about this. …

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