Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N (blog.juni-mp4.com)

59 points by mindracer 4 hours ago

blutack an hour ago

Just in case it helps anyone else, tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) is a great featureful alternative to picocom.

pelasaco an hour ago

i was searching for it today.. not available in my arch, unfortunately..

dvdbloc an hour ago

What’s your arch?

BlackRabbit1 3 hours ago

The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.

pelasaco an hour 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..

youareinsuffera an hour 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.

pelasaco an hour ago

:)

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