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Reminds me of the article on HN some months ago where someone got a form of Lunix running on the controller SoC within a hard drive. Incredible what power is be

by Arrath 5y ago

Reminds me of the article on HN some months ago where someone got a form of Lunix running on the controller SoC within a hard drive. Incredible what power is being packed into other devices, these days.

awesomepeter 5y ago
Why lunix? I assume you mean Linux, I've seen it written this way a few times and am wondering where it comes from
- pjmlp 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix
- Arrath 5y ago
  Typo, nothing more nothing less.
luke2m 5y ago
https://adequacy-org.vercel.app/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html https://adequacy-org.vercel.app/public/stories/2001.12.2.420...
- Arrath 5y ago
  This feels like a rabbit hole, my my.
- jjice 5y ago
  Satirical news/blog stories are my favorite part of the old internet. Really with they would have a comeback. The long form written humor is a lot more fun to me than something like Twitter.
PeterisP 5y ago
http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack perhaps, with the backdoor that adds an extra user when /etc/shadow is read from the drive?
- Arrath 5y ago
  That's the one I was thinking of!