Christoph Maier wrote:
So I'm wondering whether the router can be hacked (i.e., the firmware
replaced by an attack over the internet).
Sure. If you can reflash the unit through its web interface, then it
certainly can be hacked or otherwise destroyed over teh intarawebz. For
instance, if you allow the unit to display its configuration page over
the WAN port (is that even possible?) and set a weak password ... well,
I'm sure you can see where this is going. The same goes for an attack
from inside; if your wireless network isn't secured or you use an
easily-compromised encryption scheme, they can get at it from the
internal network, too.
I don't know about you, but if I were to spend that much effort to get
into someone's device, I wouldn't compromise it in such a way that it
makes it useless. My guess is that it's defective hardware. After all,
it *is* a device intended for "consumers."
-kelsey
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