 EGeezerSummertimePremium
join:2002-08-04
Midwest
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Re: Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Routers to Remote Attacks I've worked with TW business customers and have always had Time Warner put their router in bridge mode so we could use our own routers and have control over administrative functions. Having had to wait hours for them to make trivial changes to their router, we decided to eliminate the wait and do our own administration of our own equipment.
Invariably the TW support people balked at putting their router in stupid mode, but I insisted and they complied. My present stance is to verify such details as router control, port blocking etc prior to agreeing to become a customer of a prospective ISP.
A side note - the beach house we stay at in Holden Beach is a Time Warner customer - the owner had a Motorola modem with an SMC wireless router behind it, but the admin functions were all available to me. When I first encountered it, it was an open network, default password etc. With the owner's permission I secured the router with WPA/AES, disabled remote and wireless admin and left the config information with the rental office and the user key and setup instructions on the fridge door.
We came back last year and this year, the config is still in place 
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 RayMahnahmahnaPremium
join:2001-04-02
Mesa, AZ | Cool. Neat idea posting it on the 'fridge.
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What is this, some kind of FREAK OUT?!? |
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 KakalakyPremium
join:2003-04-04
Broken Arrow, OK
kudos:1 | reply to EGeezer
said by EGeezer:A side note - the beach house we stay at in Holden Beach is a Time Warner customer - the owner had a Motorola modem with an SMC wireless router behind it, but the admin functions were all available to me. When I first encountered it, it was an open network, default password etc. With the owner's permission I secured the router with WPA/AES, disabled remote and wireless admin and left the config information with the rental office and the user key and setup instructions on the fridge door. We came back last year and this year, the config is still in place I did the same thing at a beach house at the same beach. There were still plenty of other networks I could see from the house that were wide open though. |
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