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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.
But "unsecure"? Seriously? Was this writer not aware of the commonly available "insecure" which, I'm guessing since that's a new word to me, means almost the exact same thing??!
I could get down with "unsecurable", a device that goes out of it's way to keep me from making it more secure than it started out as. There's nothing "insecurable", unless you're some sort of monster trying to spread insecurities to the general populace.
Com'on editors, you've got one job to do. Why not do it well?
The router equivalent of your recorded answering machine message, "Leave a message; we're in Disneyland and you're not!"
The recorded message would rather have to be:
"Leave a message; we're in Disneyland. If you're Bob, we left the door open so you can water the plants. Don't worry about the alarm. We changed the passcode to "1111" before turning it off, in case you turn it on by mistake. While you're there, could you check all the money is still on the big desk? We put it there so you could check faster, but now we're worried the wind may have pushed it outside the window. (we left the windows open in case the dog we lost five years ago comes back.)"