exploiting printers, home routers & smb routers

[<chrisd () cissmb pointclark net>]

I read the black hat presentation on exploiting printers:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-02/bh-us-02-phenoelit-network.pdf

, good stuff & a real eye opener!

I started thinking ..., I'm no hardware expert but couldn't this be
modified & applied to all the home & small business routers ??? (linksys,
smc, d-link, etc ...)

As we all know so many of them are:

- can be configured through a web interface
- their default config is not changed
- are accessible through inet (lack of config)
- keep their default accounts (lack of config)
- new firmware can be uploaded

My question, could something similar to exploiting printers be done to
routers or would the hardware be totally incompatible ?

ch,