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Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-giggle-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently Slashdot reported that the Netgear router has as WLAN backdoor. According to this report by the news service of the German publisher Heise Netgear "fixed" the problem with a firmware update. And what is the fix? According to Heise, they didn't remove the backdoor at all. Instead they just changed the login information! They replaced the old user name 'super' with 'superman', and changed the old password to '21241036'. "

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  1. Re:Oops... by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And another reason companies shouldn't rely on H1-B talent or offshore programmers!

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