06-05-2024, 06:03 PM
This post was last modified 06-05-2024, 06:04 PM by l0st.
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(06-05-2024, 05:37 PM)Maxmars Wrote: I would bet your suspicions are correct. There are many unpublished exploits out there, and some may be there on purpose.
Not to get "all conspiratorial" about it, but it could be the ISPs themselves...
I used to be inclined to believe that the brand of the device made a difference... but the parts they use largely come from the same manufacturers. Brand is no guarantee.
The exploit is in the design most times... but it can also be in the technical application itself.
Thousands at a time.... that makes me suspect something too.
I don't know for sure that's what was going on but the tech pretty much guessed what the modem was doing so it seems they are aware of a problem. He was not able to see it online as it never synced to their network. I'm guessing either a compromise or they pushed bad firmware. They have the UI locked out so I couldn't check logs to see if there were any interesting clues in there.
I've always thought it a bit odd that the end user can more or less control the firmware on their home devices if they so desire, but firmware for cable modems has always been managed at the head end. Since these devices are based on an international standard(DOCSIS) one would think there should be no interoperability issues regardless of firmware version, so there should be no specific reason to restrict this capability to the ISP only.
At this stage of the game I wouldn't be at all surprised if the ISP has pushed a backdoor to these people's devices at the behest of the government. At least where the states are concerned, in my opinion we are no longer living under a constitutional republic. We seem to have entered an era where the corps are colluding with the government and people's legal rights as well as the law are simply ignored unless they have the dough to take the government or Corp to court.
