Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

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

52 points by mindracer 3 hours ago | 7 comments

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 54 minutes ago | |

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

blutack 57 minutes ago |

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

pelasaco 56 minutes ago | |

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

dvdbloc 37 minutes ago | | |

What’s your arch?

BlackRabbit1 2 hours ago |

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

pelasaco 57 minutes 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..