TR-069: How to turn off the back-door in Exetel’s free ZTE modem

Two weeks ago we switched our Internet and copper phone-line to the NBN grid. (you have no choice 18 months after your street is hooked up) Our Exetel ISP send out a free ZTE modern on their 12 month contacts. (while oddly selling NetComm modems for $80+) Turns out the ZTE modem they send out has an enter antime they like ‘service’ back-door called TR-069 (see the above video showing how it’s hacked) which uses port 7547. I did a port scan on the new ZTE … holy gecko poop,…

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Community Spamming: ‘Uber Eats’ drove me back to AdBlocker

I hardly watch free to air TV (been a year since I turned it on) but I can imagine it’s just as bad there. Youtube, Courier Mail and everywhere else I go on the internet, I’m getting spammed with ‘Uber Eats’ advertising. If I want something to eat, I’ll hop in my own flipping car, go shopping … and cook my own flipping burgers.

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Quick easy free way to cut down on porn spam emails

My Thunderbird email client has 23 different email accounts in it for various websites and purposes. A few are with my ISP, some with Gmail, Hotmail … some with Yahoo, Live and the rest with my own websites. Without fail, I was getting 30+ slut spams per day from those cow urine drinking…

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eBay drags heals on Australian import GST avoiding criminals

Last week I spent extra (rare for tight assed me) on postage from a supposed Australian eBay seller – item was a little MD81 wi-fi camera Same thing shipped from China by Chinese sellers is cheaper even with the Australian GST import tax. I needed the camera fast. Item location? Supposedly Botany NSW .. 1000 km trip in 4 or 5 working days max, no sweat. With tied eyes scanning advert after advert for an hour, I settled on one with the Australian Flag on it. OK I though, then…

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I’m rolling in the money this week, and it’s only Tuesday

Usually I make about 16 cents for the whole week (inflation on the old rusting mower metal in the backyard) … but the past Sunday (3 days ago) I accidental clicked on one of the Google adverts on this site. Checked today, and 55 cents for one click is showing at the Google cashboard. Took ages to get my Adsense account approved (Seinfeld sites about nothing usually don’t) so over to the Google forums I went to admit my sin and seek forgiveness. A friendly Googler assured me that my…

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Insane Pommie Furze and his spinning knife belt of death

colin furze knife belt

#colinfurze #knifebelt I don’t watch his videos much any-more, as they haven’t been as dangerous as his earlier Youtube career videos … until now. Bomb belts are so yesterday. How about a belt of spinning chief’s knives? Hahahaha … this one made me laugh this morning … what a right royal dick head (aka ‘bell end’ in Furze’s English) you are Mr Colin Furze 🙂 Bit odd Youtube allowing under 18’s to watch this though.

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I’m not sure when it happened: Metamorphosis from Aussie Bloke into web nerd

web nerds

Last week it was three days straight figuring out how to save an online forums content from the history bin … this week it’s been a two day slog learning how to build an online shop…on my own websites. (any half-assed non-nerd can use not-so-geeky eBay) Wiped my old mower site (archived on my free host), moved the domain, and started fresh with a CMS (web nerd talk for whatever…I know the answer but don’t want to say it..because it’s embarrassing knowing) and popular commerce plugin (I’m not dropping any…

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Dang, after three years of doubt I’m now a ‘Flyboard Air’ believer

Flyboard Air

It’s been three years or so since I first seen a French guy standing on a tiny jet powered platform, supposedly flying around at 150km. All the past videos of this French guy, I one way or another ended up coming across, were so polished that they looked fake. The polished videos looked like they were filmed at midday when shadows were minimal and hard to see. Most videos were always over water, yet hardly ever any visible water disturbance was seen from the supposed seven mini jet engines. There…

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How to gamble $40 and beat the Casino, Guaranteed!

australian money

Being the broke guy I am, I shudder when I find out I need to spend money on anything that’s not food or booze. My dammed car battery dropped it’s guts last week. New cheap assed pissy ones at Super Cheap Auto (SCA) start at $117. Last time I checked their site a few years back, they had new ones for $50 and 6 month warranties. No way was I paying $117+ just for a battery. The whole car only cost me $250. (1993 model worth $16,000 new) Plan A,…

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SMF Repair (Fail) Tool

smf repair tool fail

I’ve been using SMF Forum on my CB radio hobby site for 10+ years with various web hosts.  While moving GCCB this week, the SMF Repair Tool had me stumped. It kept saying no data engine could be found, even though the correct user, password and database name was entered … and it also kept recommending I use https rather than http (http is all I have) I must have wasted 6 hours screwing around because of this “tool” … eventual problem was the database backup from the old host…

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