Possible Vulnerability in "Wireless Bluebox" (Linksys WRT54G) Found

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Cliff,

Warren here. Needless to say, *I do* think an old PC can be used as a firewall just fine. In fact, I used a P133 for *years* for this purpose.

That said, I have a hard time justifying it for the average user or PCMag reader. Off-the-shelf broadband routers/firewalls are less than $40, use far less electricity than a PC, have no moving parts (hard drives, fans) to wear out or make noise, and are much less likely to be hacked by a bored script kiddie with nothing better to do than spend hours and hours looking for a way in.

As for the non-average PCMag user such as yourself (and me, for that matter), obviously, you should go for it and have fun, but be aware that you're then turning firewalling into a hobby, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but that's what you're turning it into.

Anyway, thanks for the comment.

The correct word is "who". Also Linksys is singular
life insurance quotes so it should be apostrophe S. "It is not Linksys's fault that half the people who buy their products are morons."

Warren here. In my experience, you'll need to hold the reset button down for around 10 to 20 seconds in order to do a factory reset. And in addition to this, I've had to repeat the process a few times in order to get a totally clean reset. Once you've done a reset, then password should revert to the default "admin". Of course, you'll need to reset all of your firewall and wireless settings.

I was actually bitten by this one, somebody did change my admin pw, because I didn't know about the bug in disabling Remote Admin. I held down the reset button for approx 10 seconds and everything was cleared to defaults.

Beats me why Linksys can't randomise passwords when they ship and sticker the box or manual with the individual password. Yes, it would cost more, but so what?

The shoddy way they handled security on this product with a string of cascading bugs is appalling:
1) stupid default login (the only good default pw is a random one)
2) bug prevents disabling remote admin (!!!!) holy QA, batman
3) web interface is http cleartext INCLUDING WEP keys
and I'm sure that's only some of the obvious flaws.

Apart from that it's a good product, although the DHCP server has a very bad and inconvenient habit of changing IP addresses over time for the same machine/MAC. That doesn't seem like sensible behaviour to me.

Read the instructions.... It advises you to change the admin password. It is not Linksys' fault that half the people they buy their products are morons.

I think you meant: THAT buy their products...

The correct word is "who". Also Linksys is singular so it should be apostrophe S. "It is not Linksys's fault that half the people who buy their products are morons."

You don't put an "'s" after a word that ends in "s".

It is possible that the last part of my correction should have read: ".

It is possible that the last part of my correction should have read: ".

Actually, the only time s apostrophe is used is when the s denotes a pluralization. In this case, Linksys ends in 's' but the 's' is not pluralizing the noun. Thus, the proper way to give this noun possession would be "Linksys's" (also, punctuation goes INSIDE quotes. ie. I said, "you guys need an English class." Also, punctuation such as a period or comma goes OUTSIDE parenthesis.). <-- This second period is ending the sentence that started outside the parenthesis while the first period ends the sentence inside the parenthesis.

Oigan morones,
si hablaran en español y no estarìan discutiendo estas estupideces.

(translation:
Hey morons,
if you talked spanish, you wouldnt be discussing this shit.)

Rofl

If you look up the grammar rules pertaining to the apostrophe-s examples, you'd find that it has absolutely nothing to do with pluralization. The apostrophe denotes possession. AND, whether you use s's or s', is entirely up to the person writing it.

ı think grammar is very important
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Why is it that, when one's superiority complex ramps up, and the presumed need to correct english online (a challenge that is time consuming and not worthwhile), people suddenly feel the need to use the word "thus?" It's as cliche as a villain revealing his secret plans to the hero, moments before leaving the room (and THUS the hero escapes and thwarts the villains plans...)

Arguing on the internet is like participating in the Special Olympics...even if you win you're still retarded.

Errr.. the DHCP can be disable, and use your comps to assign DHCP.
and there's a quick fix for your remote management. er.. block the ports. ??!!!

but if you really want to do the whole nine yards. then download the cisco 3.1.1 firmware and use that.

given you know your CCNA.

given you know your cisco certified network associate. how does this sentence make sense? how does the CCNA have anything to do with replacing router firmware if its not in the curriculum? how do people argue on this site about the use of s's and the word thus? how come i cant stop asking these questions, and THUS, am wasting my time?

Well, Let's see.
using Cisco Firmware and not knowing the commands and educational knowledge to command a Cisco hardware would not ony be idiotic but... how can I say this. dumass.

:)