Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

 (blog.juni-mp4.com)

50 points | by mindracer 3 hours ago

3 comments

  • youareinsuffera 31 minutes ago
    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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    • pelasaco 28 minutes ago
      :)

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

  • blutack 31 minutes ago
    Just in case it helps anyone else, tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) is a great featureful alternative to picocom.
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    • pelasaco 30 minutes ago
      i was searching for it today.. not available in my arch, unfortunately..
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      • dvdbloc 11 minutes ago
        What’s your arch?
  • BlackRabbit1 2 hours ago
    The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.
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    • pelasaco 31 minutes ago
      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..