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Dusan Klinec, Miroslav Svitok
Personal blog · deadcode.me/blogsecurityhardwareprogramming
Dusan Klinec, Miroslav Svitok writes 0xDEADC0DE, a personal blog at deadcode.me about security, hardware and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hacking passwords of UPC WiFi routers”. 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 security research on consumer devices. The linked post, titled 'Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link', examines weak device secrets and default passwords in TP-Link and similar routers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deadcode security blog. Authors: Dusan Klinec (ph4r05), Miroslav Svitok (Miroc).
Most-linked posts?
- Hacking passwords of UPC WiFi routers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-04
What Hacker News says?
> The device should ideally have some kind of secret material derived per device, like a passphrase generated from an MCU serial number or provisioned into EEPROM and printed on a label on the device. It is better than simple secret like 12345678 but it can go wrong too, like in the case of UPC UBEE routers where the list of potential passwords can be narrowed down to like ~60 possibilities using a googled generator…
Comment linking /blog/2016/07/01/UPC-UBEE-EVW3226-WPA2-Reversing.html
on “Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link”Submitted Hacking passwords of UPC WiFi routers as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated WiFi client deauth: mass attack on default routers & IoT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CVE-2020-6861: Ledger Monero App Spend Key Extraction as a story · 1 points
HN discussion