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by madez 3085 days ago
The evidence for a backdoor by the government vs a programming mistake or backdoor by somebody else is weak, I think. Also, what would change even if?
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From TFA:

> As you can see in the above code, the login functionality specifically

> looks for an admin user named "mydlinkBRionyg" and will accept the password

>of "abc12345cba" if found. This is a classic backdoor. Simply login with

> the credentials that I just mentioned from the above code.

Programming mistake? Seriously?