Nope, he shared the idea with me. I have put it to test on other innocent Kenyans( i did not tamper with anyone, just peeped and left). Lets just say, the techies at Zuku are very very careless or assuming a lot.

You might not realize you have an Internet address that’s as well-defined as your street address. To see your own public IP address, surf to whatismyip.com. Your address will be displayed in big bold letters and will look something like this: 101.75.75.101. In most cases, this public address leads straight to your router, which as its name implies, routes all data traffic between your networked computers, tablets, smartphones, webcams, and to and from the outside world.

If someone gains control of your router, you’re in for a rough time. They can open and redirect any sort of traffic anywhere they want. The havoc they wreak can also ruin a whole lot of other people’s days with what’s relayed through your equipment.

Most routers and many NAS devices come with well-documented default login IDs and passwords (“admin” and “password,” for instance). These devices typically have installation wizards that prompt the user to change them before the device is connected to the Internet. But for one reason or another, that step is sometimes skipped and the password is never changed. Other times, the password is updated, but at some point down the line, the user performs a hard reset. This common troubleshooting step often restores the old, weak password without the user's knowledge.

Enabling UPnP on older firmware—a step that most router manufacturers recommend, because doing so simplifies configuration—can expose connectivity to FTP and SMB servers running on the router, enabling any Internet snoop to access every file on an attached storage device. An anonymous group recently posted a list of several hundred IP addresses assigned to vulnerable Asus routers.

You can’t afford to wait for the industry to wake up. Take action now to lock down your router, your NAS device, your IP cameras, and every other device on your network that’s exposed to the Internet. Unless you want people stealing your bandwidth; your private photos, documents, and movies; and watching whatever your cameras are focused on.

Changing default passwords is one of the basic steps that must be taken to secure a network. Zuku, if they aren't doing it, wouldn't be the first to ignore this procedure. War drivers have accessed airport lobbies (in developed countries mind you) and logged in to wireless access points using default username/password combinations. What i have realized lately is that ISPs are hiring --mostly outsourcing- poorly trained technicians to manage devices. At this point its actually up to the users themselves to secure their devices. The Chinese aren't sleeping for your information, they actively scan and try to brute force poorly configured devices. A simple change of the default username and password is an effective countermeasure to this security risk.