Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4

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Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 23, 2003 @08:59AM from the oh-didn't-you-catch-that dept.

An Anonymous reader points to this Wired article, excerpting "Sprint officials acknowledged that remote access to the administrative software embedded in the ZyXel Prestige 642 and 645 modems is by default protected with a password of '1234.' But the company said users are responsible for securing the equipment, which stores login data, including the user's e-mail address and password." Wired found that more than 90% of the modems they polled were using that default password.

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Re:First Post by jbrelie · 2003-01-23 09:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

except that yours was't first. :P
Psssttt, Yo Guys... by Amsterdam+Vallon · 2003-01-23 09:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just got into CmdrTaco's account...!

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Obligatory Cliche by Gudlyf · 2003-01-23 09:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic
1. Set Sprint modems to insanely easy password.
2. Leak the information to Wired and Slashdot
3. ...
4. PROFIT!
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Re:As I've always said by goatasaur · 2003-01-23 09:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"...but people will always be stupid. You can't change that." Hitler tried. :(

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Want to see my sac? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 09:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It smells like blue cheese. Want to see it?
GWB, and the New Intellectual by farrellj · 2003-01-23 09:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fnord
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Mod down the parent.... by d3xt3r · 2003-01-23 09:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I would have done it myself but I thought it would be more useful to post a link to the Slashdot story for the clueless moderators who modded it up in the first place.
I loooks like Slashdot did run a story about the CVS bug.
What's next? Taco will read the parent and post a duplicate story without checking over yesterday's posts.... sheesh.
Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by NineNine · 2003-01-23 09:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So, I miss an article that was posted once.. most are posted, twice (or more)... and 13 people have to reply to tell me that? Wow. I think that we all have waaay too much free time to be spending here. I think that we should all just slowly put down the keyboards, and back away from the computers...
Re:Here's another hole that needs to be plugged by veldmon · 2003-01-23 09:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There's a "Sprint" in that there hole. That is goatse.cxerrific!
Re:Unrelated, but much more serious security hole by dbCooper0 · 2003-01-23 09:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...not yet :-)

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Re:Hey! by mrdisco99 · 2003-01-23 10:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Funny, I was the first one to post this joke (too naive, I guess, to think 50 others would do the same thing) and I get moderated down to -1 as redundant.

It figures.

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Re:Well, its 1, 2, 3... by tommck · 2003-01-23 10:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And it's 5, 6, 7...
Open up to Bill Gates!
Ain't got time for Windows' guy
Whoopee! WE're all gonna die!

SOrry... it's all I could think of... caffeine shortage..

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Re:Oh No! by Greedo · 2003-01-23 10:08 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Isn't it great how the second post can be modded redundant?

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Re:Wasn't it Skoorb? by sheetsda · 2003-01-23 12:31 · Score: 1, Offtopic

IIRC Brooks talks about that in the directors commentary on the DVD. "Skoorb" didn't sound quite right so they changed it slightly. Another bit of trivia: the scene with Dark Helmet playing with the dolls was completely adlibbed by Rick Morranis(sp?), Brooks just told him the concept, no dialogue, and they shot it.