I cannot believe that 20 out of the 46 consecutive Adam Internet IP addresses I just tested were completely vulnerable with zero security.
I was able to log into these 20 modems which had full remote management access with either no password, or the default password for the modem. This means that if I felt like breaking the law, I could with the click of a button or three, completely shut-down their firewall, and enable wireless access to their modem with no security.
You might say, whooop-de-doo. But the reality is that I could use Google Australia to put a name to their username (in some cases, since a lot of people use their surname as their username, and if there are only a few people in Adelaide with that surname, you can simply use a reverse DTMS phonebook to put a phone number/street address to that surname, using the availability of Adam Internet maps to limit the possible phone numbers for that surname/username.
In my opinion, it would only take me a few hours to match an exact street address to a modem/router that I now have complete access and complete control to, which would effectively allow me to plug a computer into their LAN (i.e. by wireless, sitting in my car on the street). If they have any shared folders of private data containing comprimising financial information, such as how I keep a text file of every single password I ever have had including all my internet banking passwords, then they would be completely screwed. No one could prove that it was me that sat outside your house in my car with my wireless laptop stealing your private data, unless I’m dumb enough to not send it to myself via a swiss bank account.
Don’t bother trying to hack me though, as I have remote management disabled, an insanely long router password, my router won’t even respond to PING, I have powerful software firewalls on every computer connected by ethernet, and wireless is disabled anyway. Then, if you do get to my computer (total respect if you do!) I don’t have any shared folders so you still have to hack my linux operating system as well, and then you would have to decrypt my 256kilobit SSL passwords database. On top of that, you would also have to hold a gun to my head before I would tell you where my key-disk is that you need in combination with this 256kilobit SSL encrypted password database. Even then, I’m one of those guys that enjoys a good manly fight, and I look forward to the day that someone holds a gun to my head so I can legally bash the crap out of you in the comfort of my own home. Oh, and even if you did pull the trigger in time you still won’t know where the keydisk is. And if you do find the keydisk (which you won’t, because when you open the door to the room it’s in you’ll set off an alarm which will release a deadly gas unless you enter the correct security code in time). And even then, I have also taken measures to ensure my assets are not liquid enough to be instantly transferred, so you would have to tie me up for several business working days before you could get my money. In this time, my mum tends to worry a lot, so you would have to either kill my parents or tie them up too, and given how social my mum is you’d have to come up with a plot to convince her friends that she was at home sick or something, with a deadly contagious virus such that her friends won’t want to visit her. Alternatively, you could just kidnap my parents and myself in this time, except for the fact that I have a sophisticated GPS pretty much pernamently attached to my body, and the amount of stuff that can be done with that is another story in itself!!
So, have you taken the measures of security that I have, to secure your financial data and/or personal information?
P.S.
The room with the security coded poisonous gas on time release was a fib. The GPS attached to my body I don’t currently own yet, although I’m buying one ASAP when they are relased in Australia in a few weeks. Everything else is true about my financial security. Having said all this, the stock market in general isn’t looking too secure itself anyway 
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