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Kinda weird article, the firmware mod and serial console are essentially completely unrelated. And in this case having console access did not really gain anythi
by zokier 4y ago
Kinda weird article, the firmware mod and serial console are essentially completely unrelated. And in this case having console access did not really gain anything, he probably could gave grabbed the passwd from the firmware image much easier.
- jwsteigerwalt 4y agoI suspected this same thing.
- zoomablemind 4y agoMy understanding is that he was more like exploring the ways to his objective to set up some sort of "backdoor". Discovering that shell gave only the read-only access to fs, he went on the fw modding way. Almost there, should he not put that <h1> before <head>... Good old HTML!