Time Warner Wi-Fi Routers Have 1990s Style Security Hole

Time Warner induces nostalgia via punk security hole: Remember the 90s? The dotcoms? The boring music? The constant stream of basic security blunders? It's so retro of Time Warner to remind us of that era by providing about 65,000 customers with a router that has not just an identical password (not strange) but that's open for configuration over the Internet.

The SMC Networks SMC8014 cable modem/Wi-Fi router is the culprit, and using the same password on each router isn't odd: I have an SMC from Comcast that I found out the password for simply by checking discussion boards.

David Chen, co-founder of pip.io, discovered this problem weeks ago, and informed Time Warner, who brushed him off. When Wired's Threat Level contacted the company, however, it admitted the problem and said it was working on a code fix. The firm says it has 14m broadband users.

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