Fender Mustang GT 100 - MEGAFAIL!

Securb

Securb

One of Jerry's Kids
Nice to know anyone in the audience with a smart phone can change your settings. I think I will stick with my "dumb" '72 Silverface with no bluetooth.

Guitar amp manufacturer Fender's recently-introduced Mustang GT 100 guitar amplifier can be made to play whatever audio an attacker fancies, security researchers have discovered.

The amp allows Bluetooth connections, but without pairing security. Anyone within range could therefore "stream arbitrary audio to it and hijack your amp output", security researcher Chris Pritchard of Pen Test Partners (PTP) reported.

The device - marketed towards gigging musicians - is trivially easy to hack, as a video put together by PTP (below) demonstrates.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/27/fender_smart_guitar_amp_dumb_security/

 
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Wow that's some "tone boost" that someone kicked on for him ;)

not putting any authentication requirement on it is *almost* like fender's design team saying
It's a "gigging amp" that we never expected you to play near other human beings
 
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My guess is that this will be corrected with a firmware update.
 
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Doesn't Lew play one of these amps? I might have to show up at his next gig with my favorite xHamster clip cued up.
 
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Securb said:
Doesn't Lew play one of these amps? I might have to show up at his next gig with my favorite xHamster clip cued up.
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Not the GT version, that's the brand new line. The other versions did not have bluetooth.



Now who among us isn't loading that app on their phone and going hunting for cover bands this weekend before the firmware update HAHAHAHAHAHA
 
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:haha:

What's the idea of that anyway. In what situation it could practical to control your amp with smartphone?
 
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Jacew said:
:haha:

What's the idea of that anyway. In what situation it could practical to control your amp with smartphone?
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Practice at home? Certainly not at a gig, but lots of these apps have 'deep parameters' that are not accessible from the front panel. TC Electronics do this with their TonePrint pedals, where there is like 100 parameters in addition to the knobs on the pedal.
 
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Mincer said:
Practice at home? Certainly not at a gig, but lots of these apps have 'deep parameters' that are not accessible from the front panel. TC Electronics do this with their TonePrint pedals, where there is like 100 parameters in addition to the knobs on the pedal.
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It's pretty annoying having to connect my mustang to computer for that. Adjusting Fuse settings with mouse is already quite awkward.

Trying to do that on a smartphone screen sounds just awful...
 
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Jacew said:
It's pretty annoying having to connect my mustang to computer for that. Adjusting Fuse settings with mouse is already quite awkward.

Trying to do that on a smartphone screen sounds just awful...
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I would hope they use sliders vs virtual knobs, which don't work well.
 
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Jacew said:
It's pretty annoying having to connect my mustang to computer for that. Adjusting Fuse settings with mouse is already quite awkward.

Trying to do that on a smartphone screen sounds just awful...
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The Champion series was awesome cuz it sounds like the mustang amps but it just sticks the amp models on a rotary knob, the fx level and adjust on two more knobs, and no you can't deep edit but in reality there's a couple amp models in there I like, and the ones I dont like, well I had a Mustang I and no amount of deep edits could save the models I wasnt digging!

Technology is great but so is "set it and forget it"
 
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