NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open

Glenn Fleishman writes "On the heels of Linksys's WRT54G problem of not allowing remote access to be disabled in certain cases and firmware, BugTraq published this report that NetGear's WG602 access point has a hidden password that provides remote and local administrative control. Unlike Linksys's, where turning the firewall on (which is on by default, but a researcher found new units in which it was off when taken out of the box), the NetGear hole cannot be disabled. The backdoor seems to have been created by the vendor that packaged the device for NetGear."

Comments

Re:Too easy

[evilviper]

Man, takes all the fun out of these jokes when it's so easy.

No, that's not what took the fun out of it, I'm sure of that...

More like the billions of times it was repeated over the course of 2 months, and the fact that absolutely no thought is put into all the infinite different variations.

It's about as funny as "first post", and "imagine a beowulf cluster of these". It's about as funny as seeing someone peeing into the pool you're swimming in... Why they still get moderated up, I just don't know. I suppose /. still gets new users regularly, and it's still new to a couple of them..

At least a little bit of thought has to be put into the "1,2,3 Profit" jokes, although it seems to be less and less thought lately... Step 1 used to always be a full sentence or paragraph, now people are just whoring and putting 3 words with no humor to them at all.

funny mods != karma

[SuperBanana]

More like the billions of times it was repeated over the course of 2 months, and the fact that absolutely no thought is put into all the infinite different variations.

That was actually exactly my point. How ironic that it was lost on you.

Step 1 used to always be a full sentence or paragraph, now people are just whoring and putting 3 words with no humor to them at all.

I was under the impression that funny mods resulted in no karma points. If I've been earning karma points for my funny posts, at least I've been clueless about it.

Personally, i think you're just pissed off because I get modded up more than you do. Of course, you post 5 times as much as I do, at least.

Re:funny mods != karma

[evilviper]

That was actually exactly my point. How ironic that it was lost on you.

No, I got it, I was just ranting...

I was under the impression that funny mods resulted in no karma points.

True, but wasn't really my point. Whore has plenty of definitions, and they don't have a thing to do with Karma...

Personally, i think you're just pissed off because I get modded up more than you do.

Not possible, I didn't notice your username, and I didn't check your comment history. I still haven't, in fact.

I'm just "pissed" because I'm tired of bad mods. It's quite annoying seeing the same thing over and over again at +5. If you want to understand, just imagine if all the "First Post" comments always got modded up to +5, then you'd understand how irritated I am.

Incidentally, I get modded-up plenty... There are times when my posts get showered with them, and there lulls. I mainly have a lot of comments with no mods done to them because almost everything I post tends to be replies, where few people see them. Not that it matters though; my karma's been maxed out for many years now.