Two students have managed to hack the new fon.com router “La Fonera”. The openwrt-based router was intended to be more secure and harder to hack than former systems. Nontheless the students managed to inject shell code into the system and prevent further firmware updates from fon.com without tampering with the hardware, but from a simple ssh connection. More information on the hack can be found on this website of one of the students: http://stefans.datenbruch.de/lafonera/
Fon.com is working on building a world-wide network of free wifi hotspots. To encourage users to signup they are offering cheap pre-configured routers to new users which will provide a secure ssid for personal user and a public unencrypted ssid.

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