On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 01:23:22 pm Eben King wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
>>> I installed Skype. The tests showed it working.
>>> Later I was looking at my Verizon router and
>>> discovered two new port forwarding entries for
>>> Skype. Now how was it able to do that? I
>>> thought that any changes in the router required
>>> user:password (unless remote administration is
>>> turned on).
>>
>> Me too, some for Skype and some for Miranda (a
>> multi-protocol IM client for Windows, which I believe is
>> open-source). Must be a back door, and if they can do
>> it, anybody can. Can you say "back door", boys and
>> girls? Good, I knew you could. I wonder if DD-WRT has
>> the same back door. I hope not.
>>
>> The ones here are now deleted when noticed. Deletion
>> takes a long time on "my" Actiontec MI-424WR.
> In the past I've noticed the UPnP enable/disable checkbox on
> the Linksys WRT54G router (also on Sveasoft, but if it is
> on DD-WRT it is not in the same location). I wondered what
> it was for, but I didn't take the time look into it.
>
> I suppose the Verizon folk want it running on their routers
> to save tech support calls.
Huh. I'll find and disable mine and see what breaks. I mean, Miranda's not
doing anything Pidgin's not, and Pidgin doesn't need additional forwarding
rules. Skype, well, I'll see if that still works.
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-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
If you need someone to blame
Throw a rock in the air
You'll hit someone guilty -- U2, _Zooropa_, "Dirty Day"
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