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Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware

Posted by michael on Thursday February 5, 2004 @02:35AM from the improvise-adapt-overcome dept.

FatCat writes "SecurityFocus has a story about a group of hardware and software hobbyists specializing in embeddded systems who've released their own custom firmware for Motorola Surfboard cable modems. The firmware lets you log in to an interactive VxWorks shell, or issue commands from a Web browser through an http interface. You load it by tapping an undocumented console serial port on the circuit board. So far, uncappers are apparently the primary consumers, and they're downloading up to 400 copies a day."

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Beep Beep by notbob · 2004-02-05 02:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wheres my uncapper for road runner?

Must beep beep faster...
fp faggots by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 02:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

uncapped cable modems! JEAH!
big ups to jersey!

YAH!
GULRGULRGLRLRGLRG by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 02:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

not quite first post
Repent! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 02:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You must get saved for the end is coming !
Mindless by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 03:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

www.fibercoax.net
These people arent led by the money hungry DerEngel (as known on efnet), and actually have quality software. their hmac-md5 cracker can do over 1million keys/sec.