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3COM's Ergo Audrey Hacked

Posted by timothy on from the nifty-tiny-cheap-pick-any-three dept.

It looks like the 3COM Ergo Audrey hacking scene is finally taking off. A guy named Sowbug has hacked the 3COM Ergo Audrey to shell. He has pictures of it here(1) and here(2). Another site has opened to cover this hack, here(3). And of course the Linux Hacker messageboards are covering it quite a bit.

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  1. Standard Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Okay. Mod me down to zero. Shouldn't the description mention what the fuck 3Com's Ergo Audrey is or does? This may be off-topic but it's accurate. I submit that Joe Blow's Mother Mary has been hacked. I think that's just as important

  2. hmmmm... by gol64738 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what's with the dec '99 dates for /bin and /tmp? he says that he purchased it on july 23rd. i think his directory creation dates look a little funny. maybe these *are* faked.

  3. Re:How much did sowbug harvest from the slash? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    If in fact these are faked screens, which we visited, one wonders how much his sites harvested from our browsers that's sitting in his logs now?

    WHAT?

  4. Re:Faked Screenshots by alhaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um, read his webpage.

    He doesn't say anything about even trying to run linux on it. He's managed to get QNX to give him a regular shell prompt on it, and considers that useful. QNX aint a bad OS, so, sure, that's useful.

    It's too fuzzy to make out what's on that title bar, but it would be perfectly normal for the QNX gui to put a title bar on a window, wouldn't it?

    --
    This is just like television, only you can see much further.
  5. Audrey is an obsolete system discontinued by 3Com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Audrey is an Internet Appliance discontinued by 3Com
    See the link:

    http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/consumer/au drey/finalfaq.pdf

    Discontinuance of Audrey Q&A
    Q Why has 3Com decided to discontinue its Audrey product line?
    A While we continue to believe in the potential of Audrey, there are ...

    But some people still think it is important.