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Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: LTE routers made by Quanta Computer Incorporated, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, are plagued by over twenty major security flaws ranging from backdoor accounts to remote code execution bugs, from hardcoded SSH keys to undocumented diagnostics pages, and from weak WPS PINs to network eavesdropping functions. As the researcher explains: "A personal point of view: at best, the vulnerabilities are due to incompetence; at worst, it is a deliberate act of security sabotage from the vendor." The vendor has not fixed any of these issues even after almost four months.
The router equivalent of your recorded answering machine message, "Leave a message; we're in Disneyland and you're not!"
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But at least it's locked down so you can't install any custom firmware and mess with the power levels!
Yes! You have complete power, and so does everyone else! It's all part of Quanta's new paradigm holding-hands sharing culture!
(Say... does anyone know how this /. shilling works? Do I just wait for my check now?)
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Based on how Quanta makes their router, I think you post your bank account information and wait for the money to come rolling in.
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Slashdot Headline May Be Using Most Unpossible English Ever Made
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You want the editors to do their jobs? That's unpossible!
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Quanta routing is using Heisenberg's indetermination principle for routing, so their packets are either secure and insecure at the same time.
Good old newtonian routing policy can fix this.