ResidentParanoid
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kapil
| Yet another example of lax security.
Great timing...
Just doing some channel surfing on the central FL BrightHouse cable, and hit the channel guide. Except it wasn't the channel guide, it was the computer they use to generate it, with a porn spam IM sitting on the screen.
Called the customer-no-service line and explained that they had a problem with the non-digital channel guide, and that they might want to do something about it.
She told me to reboot my smartbox to fix it. I DON'T HAVE A #%$& SMARTBOX ON THIS THING! Then she wanted my account number or address so they could see if it was a problem with my equipment or neighborhood. I patiently explained to her that the problem wasn't on my end, and asked if she had a non-digital TV she could see from her desk. She said yes. Told her to put it on channel 49 (the guide). "Oh!" she said, "I'll be right back"
And then the mouse on the screen started jumping all over the place as somebody tried to fix it. Turns out that there were several more of the IM's waiting behind the front one. After a few moments of clicking to close them, they apparently rebooted the box.
The real question here is why the heck do they have a box like that sitting directly on the internet? And why is the messenger service running on it anyway? |
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technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA | OMG, now this should be in a thread all by itself. I got my daily laugh at this one, even more than the aol email virus. What a total freaking idiot, I swear.
It's ashamed you didn't record it and put it up here, that would have been great. |
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ResidentParanoid
| All I managed to get was a grainy screencap: |
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bokamba
Chengdu Rocks
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Falls Church, VA | reply to ResidentParanoid
That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing! |
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