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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by youareinsuffera on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:06PM (#49147327)
Clearly the problem is the firmware was not written in Rust. I suggest a Rust rewrite so that these sort of errors will go away.
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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by pelasaco on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:08PM (#49147345)
:)

wait until somebody read it.. its one vibe coding session away from done..

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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by justsomehnguy on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:56PM (#49148790)
I've LOLed too but just an idea of a router FW in a memory safe language... is awfully convincing.
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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by Fnoord on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:39PM (#49150624)
router7 [1], written in Go, might interest you.

[1] https://router7.org

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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by pelasaco on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:57AM (#49151717)
nice, hopefully the hardware support get better.. or maybe that's the challenge for hardware hackers like us
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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by pelasaco on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:56AM (#49151709)
absolutely, but it was so unexpected, that i had to LOL too :)
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Re:Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of ... by leothetechguy on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:43PM (#49149189)
Not a bad idea ;)
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