Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N
66 points - today at 4:19 PM
SourceJust in case it helps anyone else, tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) is a great featureful alternative to picocom.
i was searching for it today.. not available in my arch, unfortunately..
What’s your arch?
the one that i was trying, omarchy.
queenkjuul
today at 8:59 PM
You can use snap or brew or build from source?
BlackRabbit1
today at 5:06 PM
The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.
the idea is more to get into hardware hacking.. the hardware is kind of irrelevant ... the most important thing is a sane UART exposed, documentation, videos about it and etc..
queenkjuul
today at 9:02 PM
I had one of those sitting in a drawer for years. I think i did get OpenWRT on it at one point. Eventually it just stopped working altogether, but i felt like i got more than my money's worth out of it. Even brand new that router cost next to nothing.
Funny enough i have the same multimeter too
youareinsuffera
today at 7:06 PM
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.
:)
wait until somebody read it.. its one vibe coding session away from done..