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Your D-Link router may have a backdoor

Another example that if you don’t own the source code to your software, you can’t be fully sure what it does.

A curious computer security professional published findings Saturday that deconstructed the firmware code for some D-Link router devices and discovered a backdoor built directly into the code. By changing the user-agent in a web browser to “xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide,” a user could bypass the security on the device and get online or control the higher functions of the router.

via Your D-Link router may have a backdoor | The Raw Story.