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."

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Re:Good grief...

[evilviper]

Well, I'm sure he could sue on some sort of false advertising, or some other of the billions of vague premises that corporations often like to use to get their way against individuals.