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It could have been deliberate, at the behest of a 3-letter US agency for example.
by GordonS 2y ago
It could have been deliberate, at the behest of a 3-letter US agency for example.
- steelbrain 2y agoIsn't D-Link Chinese? Why would they compromise their firmware for a US agency?
- dagw 2y agoPretty sure D-Link is Taiwanese. And Taiwan has reasons to want to be on good terms with the US. That being said, my money is still on incompetence.
- toyg 2y agoD-Link the company is one thing, but a company is made of individual people - each with their own needs and motivations. Intelligence work is so much easier when one stops reasoning in terms of groups.
- GordonS 2y agoAren't they Taiwanese?
- ZaoLahma 2y agoI doubt any of the famous three letter US agencies would need (or want!) such a wide open door as a "specific URL" and logging in with an administrator account acquired from the firmware itself. I would think that they would want a door that couldn't be opened by someone who happened to spot it, to not give anyone else the same advantage. No, this is more likely the result of a test or some annoying procedure during development that needed more access than the device would normally provide - I've seen it before, and I think most people who work with embedded systems at least at some point in their career have done something that would be bad if it ended up in production units.