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Old 12-02-10, 08:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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say for instance if virgin came round to do a modem install at my house and when he typed in his engineers password into the virgin media page he needs to start my subscription I had a keyboard logger and know his password!what are the benefits of this!?
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the user name is 'root' and the password is 'root'.

you have no advantage apart from being able to see the config of your modem which is very, very boring!
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there is no password

they just put in their tech id and then leave the rest for you to set a email up
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haven't got it anyway the missus deleted the key logger!but when the guy was keying in his id he looked like he didn't want me to see it!was only for instance!
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