Gaining Root Access On Linux-Based Femtocells

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 2, 2010 @05:31AM from the feel-free-to-listen-in dept.

viralMeme writes "According to the Register, 'Security researchers have turned their attention to femtocells, and have discovered that gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope.' One of the researchers said, 'After hours of sniffing traffic, changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords and investigating hardware pinouts, we had obtained root access on these Linux-based cellular-based devices, which piqued our curiosity [about] the security implications.' Whoever designed these devices should be sent back to computer school. An authentication device that can be bypassed is a contradiction in terms. Or, as some pen-pusher would put it in a report: an unantipicated security excursion.

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but it should be open by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-02 05:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but the iphone should be open for tinkeri... oh wait.
Re:Trouble by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-02 05:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I hate it when my anon posts get modded up.
Re:Trouble by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-02 05:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If that shit becomes a running /. meme, I'm out of here.