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Gort, Klattu Birada Nikto
join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA
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| reply to RayW
Re: Wiggle
said by RayW  :"According to our investigation, the modem vulnerability did not exist prior to his accessing without permission and then publishing certain confidential passwords which were not otherwise available to Be* members," says BeThere Managing Director Dana Pressman. The vulnerability did not exist prior to....? Makes no sense. Pardon me if you think I am parsing words, but saying something didn't exist prior to it being accessed is a real head-in-the-sand approach to all this. In a warped kind way, he might have done them a favor. For all we know, he might have found the problem and told them but was dismissed by the almighty ISP techs. So he went public with the info to show there was indeed something that needed attention.
We have seen multiple instances of this behavior. If you will recall, there was that guy, Mike Lynn I think, who did that to Cisco. Cisco screamed bloody murder and subverted the legal process to get what they wanted.
What I am getting at is there are people with both good and bad intentions out there, and both should be listened to.
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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
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| But the question is, is it just his password, or do they use it on ALL the routers as a backdoor? AUP specifies you keep your passwords safe, I do not know how that applies if it is a global password that Bubba down the street can use against all users of BeThere or if British law even allows a differentiation between the two concepts.
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