That may be so, but I was replying regarding dd-wrt. It will be off
there, provided you did an nvram reset on first install (as is a part of
the process).
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 9:45 pm, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009 09:36:04 pm draeath wrote:
>> It does, but its off by default. Its not as sinister as
>> you think, look up upnp as others direct. But it is a
>> hole.
>
> The MI-424WR that Verizon installed with FIOS came with UPnP
> enabled.
>
> Don
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 1:23 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.
>> >
>> > --
>> > -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP
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>> > friends are laughing behind your back... kill them.
>> > Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine
>> > you've got hanging in your den. -- Weird Al, _Your
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