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namibj · 2021-12-23 04:45:48

TIL, and this sounds actually rather useful. Do you have information on which ones would support that? Especially in the range a curious hacker (who else is HN for?) would be interested in.

jloughry | karma 1444 | avg karma 3.8 · | 2014-03-09 01:53:35+00:00

This is HN material. It's hacking a different kind of system, is all.

stewie2 | karma 109 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2012-07-27 23:46:29+00:00

wow, interesting. how hackable are they?

taylodl | karma 8616 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2013-11-19 09:15:14

One of the most insightful comments I've read on HN. Love your idea of taking the Unix approach to hardware - don't know enough about hardware hacking to know if that's doable but I like the idea!

pestatije | karma 588 | avg karma 0.42 · | 2023-01-15 09:55:49

interesting hacking target

jiakeliu | karma 488 | avg karma 21.22 · | 2012-04-06 22:53:02+00:00

Haven't seen a bunch of hardware hacks on HN, so I figured I would share our project!

ruskyhacker | karma 51 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2022-09-14 18:45:20

Funny, sawthisbon discover and immediately wondered if this was on HN.

Anyway, I have a few of these I use for pentests / audits https://electroniccats.com/store/huntercat/

I've caught and reported two pumps at fuel stations near where I live. One of them I watcheded when the police showed up and with the fuel station employee removed the ble module storing the data.

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bootload | karma 37441 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2016-11-12 07:08:18

yeah I saw that. Was/is it any good? Is that all hackers search for? I'll take a look at this. Might be some gaps I might find interesting.

jorgem | karma 561 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2011-02-04 18:25:35+00:00

Interesting. How do they hack that?

GabrieleR | karma 39 | avg karma 1.15 · | 2024-01-05 17:11:04

The snake sh code was a graceful late night read to me. Thanks. I can see it being used even to purposely puppeteer ssh linked machines

wslh | karma 32011 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2013-09-12 14:24:41+00:00

There is a reference at the bottom to another article on hacking hnsearch to surpass their result limit.

raju | karma 6479 | avg karma 5.64 · | 2008-01-06 15:51:23+00:00

Ah! Yes, I believe this has been mentioned in earlier articles, and I thought of that today morning. I guess its easy to take a look at that, and then take on some of the suggestions that the other hackers have put up.

Thank you, all of you, hopefully I will have my mind blown away.

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Sammi | karma 1364 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2022-08-25 08:14:40

This is the most valuable comment I have read on hacker news. My mind is blown. Thank you.

chairmankaga | karma 91 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2015-03-26 21:04:04

Didn't even know about this when I wrote the comment. Now I'm a little more inspired to look into hardware hacking. Thanks!

DanHulton | karma 4925 | avg karma 4.83 · | 2022-01-03 20:13:03

And these can then be turned off by the hacker.

misnome | karma 5513 | avg karma 3.83 · | 2012-09-30 09:16:50+00:00

Please do explain further - I've not seen this referenced with it's name and description for quite some time on Hacker News! It is very rare!

mtreis86 | karma 1065 | avg karma 2.23 · | 2023-09-29 14:42:53

How hackable is it? That could be useful

bfgoodrich | karma 151 | avg karma 0.7 · | 2022-04-26 07:16:39

ROFL. Yes, "as a toy". Things that 99.9% of Hacker News (and 99.999999% of the general public) has literally never had a need to do, their absence surely just invalidates it.

Hot takes like yours are what make HN a hilarious joke to the rest of the world. Embarrassing.

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pachydermic | karma 802 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2013-08-06 04:57:42+00:00

The H2G2-42 thing is pretty funny!

On a more serious note... Can anyone shed some light on the hackability of this piece of hardware?

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sanxiyn | karma 14687 | avg karma 3.61 · | 2018-08-08 22:01:44+00:00

No. Hack's type system is unsound and HHVM discards all type information from Hack.