Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems

Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems by iso1631 on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:22AM (#22033790)

BT in the UK does a similar thing - called "Fon"

I assume that traffic on that network is always qossed to lowest priority, but I've never used it (I don't use a BT router)

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Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems by lozaning on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:43PM (#22037249)

I glad to hear that Fon is still around. Back when they were giving out free AP's I snagged a couple and they were my first foray into hardware hacking. Neat little devices, I always felt a bit guilty about not using them to actually deploy fon hotspots.

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Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems by londons_explore on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:05PM (#22040242)

A year or two ago they sent an email to all of us with 1st gen FON hardware and said they were retiring it and that we'd have to buy a new one. I didn't.

They never disabled my account - I not get worldwide FON roaming for free forever - yay!

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Re:Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems by opless on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:16PM (#22039323)

Virgin Media do this too, your box is by default something like VM123456-[2|5]G and an (optional) 'community' hotspot (like FON) of VirginMedia

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