Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it:

Posted by BernardSwiss on Apr 22, 2014 4:26 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Sean Gallagher
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Researcher finds secret “knock” opens admin for some Linksys, Netgear routers.

First, DSL router owners got an unwelcome Christmas present. Now, the same gift is back as an Easter egg. The same security researcher who originally discovered a backdoor in 24 models of wireless DSL routers has found that a patch intended to fix that problem doesn’t actually get rid of the backdoor—it just conceals it. And the nature of the “fix” suggests that the backdoor, which is part of the firmware for wireless DSL routers based on technology from the Taiwanese manufacturer Sercomm, was an intentional feature to begin with.

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