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paddlesteamer's blog
Personal blog · 0x90.psaux.ioprogrammingsecurityhardware
paddlesteamer's blog is a personal blog at 0x90.psaux.io about programming, security and hardware. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a detailed, multi-part teardown of the router an ISP supplied, covering access to its ssh, telnet and web root passwords and its ACS URL settings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2020/03/22/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already-Yours-Router-Wars-Episode-III/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Finally some proof that Huawei does have back doors in their network equipment. In part 3 https://0x90.psaux.io/2020/03/22/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already... the author rights that a Huawei engineer has an authorized ssh key that would allow them to access your router. Just Wow!
Comment linking /2020/03/22/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already-Yours-Router-Wars-Episode-III/
on “A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP”Submitted A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP as a story · 611 points
HN discussionInteresting read! There's actually 3 parts to this: Part 2: https://0x90.psaux.io/2020/03/19/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already... And 3: https://0x90.psaux.io/2020/03/22/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already... Summary from the end of Part 3: "So we managed to change passwords for both ssh and telnet, gain access to Root user for the web interface, changed that password too. We changed ACS URL to ours and remove the IP restrictions…
Comment linking /2020/03/22/Taking-Back-What-Is-Already-Yours-Router-Wars-Episode-III/
on “A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP”Submitted Experimenting on My Hearing Loss as a story · 156 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTPS Is a Privacy Nightmare as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write a Ladspa Plugin? as a story · 2 points
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