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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:Not funny at all by Albanach · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Instead of spending time consulting lawyers, why don't the lusers instead spend time reading the accompanying manual which tells them to select their own password.

    Why do people want to blame, sue and hold responsible a company for the actions of users who have chosen either not to read or not to follow the doccumentation.

    I'm not trolling here, I agree that these things should be shipped so they won't fnction until a password is chosen by the user. Nonetheless, the users were told to set a password and ignored that advice, now the company that provided the hardware is supposed to be responsible for their ignorance?