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		MichaelGG on Oct 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireles... But you didn't have physical access to the router. Setting aside that you could probably dump it out of memory if you had root on the OSX box, the router shouldn't have coughed it up so easily if it was supposed to be secure.

girvo on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

Oh, that was supposed to be my point if I didn't make it clearly enough: a router should NEVER have been programmed to do that.

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