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You'll have to forgive me for the awful presentation format and pacing, but here's a fun trick for bypassing the auth system on the Asus WL-700gE circa 2007:

http://www.toaster-of-doom.com/~brandon/no_crawl/router/

Spoiler alert: it makes the WRT120N look like Fort Knox. These companies have come a long way over the years.



I clicked the link expecting not to understand what was happening.. but wow.. thats insane


same here - I thought it was gonna have like 10 bash shells open with some crazy buffer flow


That was the user authentication equivalent of the Jedi hand-waving mind trick.


While they've come a long way from implementing security on the client side, they still do not appear to take it very seriously: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/dear-asus-router-use...


This one is pretty hilarious.


Wow. But bad guys don't read HTML, right? And they don't use wget or firebug, or the like, right?




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