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Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Hardcoded creds seems like a really bad idea on a network appliance. If they MUST have hardcoded creds how about they only work when sent through a serial console at least your attacker would have to have local physical access to the device.