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Router Hackz: OpenWrt
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A little report back from tonight's hack sesh:

  • Peter and Jonathan tried to hack into Peter's Netgear (I think it was a WNR1000) to flash OpenWrt. They weren't able to get the machine to respond to the flashing process, the Broadcom processor on that device doesn't appear to be so popular and there isn't much online community support for this product.

  • Karl brought 3 old WRT54Gs and discovered one of them was already running OpenWrt! Awesome, a really old build from 2006. We thought about upgrading the firmware but it was password protected really well -- the admin password prompt even worked when doing a factory reset on the sucker.

  • Johann, Sae, and Robbie played around with the OpenWrt interface and discovered how to blink the LEDs on the main page, how to SSH into the router, and thought about possible applications of an OpenWrt router. Johann and I were setting up a captive portal on the device to have it so every website accessed was redirected to the router's HTTP webserver.

Good stuff! We'll meet again in a couple of weeks. I'll send out a doodle beforehand to see what night works for those of you who couldn't make it.

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