<story><title>SharknAT&amp;To: Vulnerabilities in AT&amp;T U-verse modems</title><url>https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always annoyed me that ISPs seem to like giving customers these horribly overcomplex modems as well as other &amp;quot;value-added features&amp;quot; like &amp;quot;inject advertisements into the user’s unencrypted web traffic&amp;quot; --- especially since customers are already paying them for the service.&lt;p&gt;My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&amp;#x2F;fiber&amp;#x2F;etc. adapter, and is otherwise as unobtrusive as possible. Ditto for an ideal ISP: just sell access to the raw, unfiltered Internet, and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&amp;gt; My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&amp;#x2F;fiber&amp;#x2F;etc. adapter&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d like Europe then.&lt;p&gt;You know where we have competing ISPs and this is the standard.</text></comment>
<story><title>SharknAT&amp;To: Vulnerabilities in AT&amp;T U-verse modems</title><url>https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always annoyed me that ISPs seem to like giving customers these horribly overcomplex modems as well as other &amp;quot;value-added features&amp;quot; like &amp;quot;inject advertisements into the user’s unencrypted web traffic&amp;quot; --- especially since customers are already paying them for the service.&lt;p&gt;My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&amp;#x2F;fiber&amp;#x2F;etc. adapter, and is otherwise as unobtrusive as possible. Ditto for an ideal ISP: just sell access to the raw, unfiltered Internet, and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>My ISP seems to do the best of both worlds.&lt;p&gt;The modems, by default, do WiFi, NAT, and have a 4-port switch on the back.  The default WLAN name and password is printed on a sticker that&amp;#x27;s on the modem, they&amp;#x27;re unique per modem.  Same for the admin user.  I don&amp;#x27;t know if they allow SSH and if the SSH password is unique per modem however.&lt;p&gt;If you ask for the modem to be put into bridge mode, which they will happily do, the WiFi and NAT get disabled and whatever you plug in to the modem gets assigned a real IP address.  When I upgraded my service and required a new modem they actually asked if I wanted it in bridge mode.  All of this is configured on their side and the modem seems to pull the configuration when you first boot it.</text></comment>