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Alexei Kojenov
Personal blog · kojenov.comsecurityhardware
Alexei Kojenov's personal blog at kojenov.com covers security and hardware. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its write-up of a hard-coded administrator password backdoor in HiSilicon-based hardware video encoders, cross-referenced as CVE-2020-24215.
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Most-linked posts?
- Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-16
What Hacker News says?
CVE-2020-24215. Full administrative access with hard-coded password: https://kojenov.com/2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabili... Commonly known as backdoor.
Comment linking /2020-09-15-hisilicon-encoder-vulnerabilities/
on “Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders”Submitted Backdoors and other vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders as a story · 194 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software vulnerabilities in HiSilicon based hardware video encoders as a story · 2 points
HN discussion