Thanks,  I must admit when I did the research on this one I didn't
read absolutely everything to see if it was new, but I couldn't find any
record of these admin logins being known.   

There're other outstanding security problems with this particular
model and many users will have a worse similar exposure from leaving
the completely daft default userid/password unchanged.  So with the
rep of these things I thought it would be worth blogging what happens
when you contact the manufacturer's designated service agent (the ISP
in this case) telling them which lines in the GPL source bundle need
deleting.  So far as per their reputation would be the summary.

Of course no sensibile person trusts the zone their telco CPE is in in
the first place.  Accordingly I already had a replacement, which with
there being no libre ADSL2+ is the only ADSL2+ device compatible with
blobby WRT distros.  The first of which has proven unreliable in use
as its a very long running beta (but that's very different from
insecure).

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