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Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords
Kohenkatz writes "I have Verizon FIOS at home and my Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password 'password1' that the tech assigned to it when he set it up three years ago. I received an email from Verizon that said 'we have identified that your router still had a password of either password1 or admin1 and we have changed it to your serial number.' I checked and it actually had been changed. I believe this to be in response to the Black Hat presentation about the hackability of home routers. I am upset about this because Verizon should not have any way to get into my router and change the settings, especially because I own the router, not them! I looked in the router's settings and I see port 4567 goes to the router and is labeled 'Verizon FIOS Service.' Is this port for anything useful other than Verizon changing settings on my router? What security measures does Verizon have to protect that port from unauthorized access?"
Lazy Fuck receives router with password set to password1
Lazy Fuck doesn't change it for THREE fucking years
ISP decides to secure router for Lazy Fuck since Lazy Fuck evidently cannot
ISP Emails Lazy Fuck with new password
ISP changes password so Lazy Fuck doesn't get wtfpwn3d
Lazy Fuck whines like a petulant little schoolgirl
How did this retard even find slashdot, let alone create an account and post?
lazy fuck could be lit on fire next to a pool and he'd burn to death.
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
If you can read this, it means that I bothered to log in.
All I see is:
if you were first instead of *********, you would not have had any trouble. I had lots of trouble deciphering the summary, though...
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After three years, they changed the password to something you could easily find just by looking at the device.
I would have changed the password to something totally random, and made you sit through four hours of voice menus on the phone to figure out what the new one was, for fear you would change it back.
Verizon deserves a medal for restraint on this one.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
and thank you Verizon for stopping by and diddling my wife, I was previously unaware of how unsatisfied she was.