Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
When you have physical access to a machine, assume it is compromised.
Sometimes the compromise can be as simple as a HID device access:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
Reminder to self: [WayBack] Tomato by shibby – upgrade procedure and cfg backup | LinksysInfo.org:
I keep a text file with the changes I’ve made after a fresh install and I keep the file updated as I make changes.
Re-configuring the router after that takes a bit of time, but it is not that bad. Toastman’s method (here) noted above as well as the methods described here and here can also be used, but I haven’t tried them.
which references:
nvram export –set >config.txt
This outputs the complete setup in useable text form, each line beginning with “nvram set”. This means it’s ready to input to the router without having to add the “nvram set” to every line. You could do this by ssh or telnet.
NOTE – you can only restore the whole config file to the original router. To configure a different router you need to cherry pick the important lines (see below)
e.g.
nvram set clkfreq=480,240,120
nvram set wl0_country=AU
nvram set wan_domain=freewifi
nvram commit
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
From quite some time ago, but still very relevant as encoding issues keep occurring:
A while ago, I saw the text “v3/43/4r” in a document.I know it comes from “vóór” (the acute accent emphasises in Dutch), and wonder which encoding failure was applied to get this wrong.
Source: [WayBack] Which encoding failure did encode “vóór” into “v3/43/4r”? – Stack Overflow
From the [WayBack] answer by rodrigo:
- ó: is U+00F3, and occupies the same codepoint (0xF3) in a lot of different encodings (most ISO-8859-* and most western Windows-*).
- In CP850 the codepint 0xF3 is ¾ (U+00BE), that is the three-quarters character. It is the same in other, less used, codepages (CP775, CP856, CP857, CP858).
- The ¾ is sometimes transliterated to 3/4 when the character is not directly available.
And there you are! “vóór” -> “v¾¾r” -> “v3/43/4r”.
The first part (ó -> ¾) is the usual corruption of ANSI vs. OEM codepages in the Western Windows versions (in my country ANSI=Windows-1252, OEM=CP850). You can see it easily creating a file with NOTEPAD, writing
vóórand dumping it in a command prompt withtype.
–jeroen
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