When a “Fix” is Not a Fix - The Fix is In
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Wireless, Stupid Technology, TCM (Truly Clueless Management), Data Breaches, Tearing My Hair Out, Hardware & InfoSec, information security
In my previous post, I discussed the Time Warner/SMC modem enormous security flaw.
Lo and behold, I am visited and left a comment by “Adam Wood” defending SMC, and telling me/us what a wonderful job SMC is doing about this issue.
(That’s got to be a really crappy job for a lowly PR flack; surfing the Internet for comments on the SMC modem, and uploading a canned positive comment wherever he can.)
Despite “Mr. Wood’s” comments about how SMC is fixing the problem in an absolutely wonderful way, I admit to some slight cynicism. Especially after reading more from David Chen, the guy who found it in the first place.
According to Mr. Chen, Time-Warner claimed to have pushed out a “temporary fix.” But here is his latest conclusion:
UPDATE: Finally figured out what the “patch” Time Warner deployed was. If a user tries to login with the user/user account, it simply kicks them back to the login page with javascript. All routers are still open to the internet and all still have the same default admin password.
It seems that a fix from Time-Warner or SMC seems to consist almost entirely of PR.
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