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w00tsec
Personal blog · w00tsec.blogspot.comsecurityhardware
w00tsec is a personal blog at w00tsec.blogspot.com about security and hardware. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A security blog post on multiple backdoor passwords in Arris cable modems, linked from the comments on a Hajime follow-up thread.
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.
embedded device & webapp hacking
Most-linked posts?
- ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-19
What Hacker News says?
TFA included this interesting link, about the multiple backdoor passwords in Arris cable modems: https://w00tsec.blogspot.com/2015/11/arris-cable-modem-has-b...
Comment linking /2015/11/arris-cable-modem-has-backdoor-in.html
on “Hajime: A follow-up”Submitted ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor as a story · 471 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scan the Internet and Screenshot All the Things as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extracting RAW pictures from memory dumps as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firmware Forensics: Diffs, Timelines, ELFs and Backdoors as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted LuaBot Malware Targeting Cable Modems as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
