Dear Folks, Why has such easy back-door access been installed at all? Shalom, JBB. > From owner-bugtraq@fc.net Mon Mar 13 10:44:13 1995 > To: Phil Male <phil@compnews.co.uk> > Cc: bugtraq@fc.net > Subject: Re: Intelligent modems :-( > From: Christian Wettergren <cwe@it.kth.se> > | > > If it is in LAP-M mode, just send of AT*R to them (protected > | > > with a preset password of QWERTY). You may also use the command > | > > <1s>****<1s> analog to the +++ sequence. You may even load > | > > | > I'm sure there must be a way to disable it or change the password? > | > | There is - I had this conversation over a year ago here and if I had the > | manuals to hand I'd tell you want it is (well on the modems we use > | anyway) - but it is documentated in the manuals. > There is, I believe it was AT*C or something. What concerns me is that > this is totally undocumented in the papers from Intel. > I also feel uneasy with the possibility of reprogramming the Flash-PROMs. > Many of the modems do have quite a lot of RAM inside, one model I saw > said it had 32kRAM inside (not a Rockwell chip though). It might be > farfetched, but I would definitely not want someone to upload a "password > sniffer" into my modem. > /Christian Wettergren, cwe@it.kth.se > KTH/Teleinformatics