Every ISP I've ever dealt with stores your password in plaintext. If this were not true, they would not be able to tell you what it is. Just call support, identify yourself and ask them to change your password for you. The risk is that someone else could use your account to access the Internet. Apparently that's a risk the ISPs are willing to take. So exposing your ISP password in plaintext on your own computer is really no more of a risk than you are already exposed to. That's why I use "throwaway" passwords for ISP access. They're worthless anyway. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ -----Original Message----- From: Florian Rock [mailto:florianrock@web.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:15 AM To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com; full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com; vuln@secunia.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] SMC Router safe Login in plaintext I found that the SMC Barricade SMC-7404BRB safe the Login for the Provider safe in plaintext!!!
