D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched

Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:28PM (#21197979)

There were definitely problems and abuses with the model.

But the hardware itself was robust and reliable.

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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by bsder on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:50PM (#21198128)

Remember: "We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company"

Fake commercial on Saturday Night Season 2 Episode 1.

(It wasn't called Saturday Night Live until later.)

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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:29AM (#21200619)

I find the story of Walter Shaw Sr. even more instructive.

Independent inventor convicted and gaoled by AT&T for "misdemeanor attachment", the crime of attaching non-AT&T equipment to AT&T's phone network.

More on this in the first bit of "The Inventor and the Thief" on Snap Judgement:

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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:40PM (#21199794)

Because the hardware didn't do much of anything!

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Re:D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain U... by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:35AM (#21200656)

Contrast Minitel, a videotext online system provided by the French government phone monopoly Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones in 1980.

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