https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/dlink_ftc_denied/

America's trade watchdog's case against network device maker D-Link will go ahead next January – after a district judge rebuked the two sides for wasting money drawing up and filing demands for summary judgments.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought its lawsuit against Taiwanese D-Link early last year in California, and in doing so griped about a host of alleged bad practices, including hard-coded passwords, command-injection vulnerabilities, misplaced security keys, and plaintext password storage in D-Link's gear. These, the watchdog claimed, amounted to misrepresentation by a company that touted the advanced security of its products, and thus put buyers at risk.