On that page there is a link to a Washington Post article, and with that there are many interesting comments in general, and one of those comments had a link to a Defcon video that demonstrated how to hack into the Huawei Router. The router features 90's style security features (none!) and is vulnerable to 90's style hacks. The video showed source code and was a primer on basic hacking, beginning with using a buffer overflow to get to the stack and install a shell script, then hacking into malloc to get to the heap and do some heap spaying, and finally installing the exploit as an interrupt service routine for the memory corruption exception.

The moral of the story is that though Huawei stands accused of having placed back doors in their router, this is improbable because it is so easy to hack into there is no need for any backdoors, which would be redundant.

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• Fascinating! - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 03:00 PM EDT