Originally Posted by gigaplex

If you leave your radio unattended, can someone just go into the menu and view the password in plain text? If yes, that's easy to abuse. If no, then a forgotten password will need to be reset which may make secure passwords hard to remember and tedious to use, increasing the likelihood of a weak password being used. I work in IT and have a healthy dose of skepticism any time there's a password involved without another factor of authentication.