The Wyze Pan v3 has secure boot fused as well. Unfortunately for them, the implementation of it is broken because it only verified the first 32 bits of the signature, so thingino (a 3rd party firmware replacement) now…
> This is probably obvious to most people, but I will mention just the same: do not install the antenna that the TV comes with. Wifi antennas would typically be internal and unrelated to the one F-Type coaxial connector…
> I like the EPOMAKER Magicforce Smart2 68-Key layout [0] . No QMK, but I get by with Karabiner, etc. Many Epomaker boards are just licensed to be sold under their brand name, most of them fairly transparently. (Ie.…
On this subject since it's an Australian seller and marketed as "DV safe". Australia has a national test of it's phone alert system in 10 days at 27/07/26, 2PM AEST. (People in North America would know it as Cell…
It did however deliver the hilarious quote "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", in regards to end-to-end encrypted messaging.[1] It went…
I suspected something along these lines was possible when I looked at this provider a couple months ago. If I recall, I had a fairly decent view of their various checks because it was delivered completely unminified,…
If I recall, for something like GPON or XGS-PON, you end up having to clone the various attributes of the original for it to work properly. This typically includes serial number, hardware id, firmware identifiers, etc.
Qualcomm kind of does this with their XPAN extension, sends the audio over local network. I believe it's mostly a proprietary solution though, so I haven't seen any serious attempts to re-implement it yet.
> Most vendors gave the security researchers either silent treatment or were slow, even after Airoha published fixes. Jabra was one of the positive outlier, Sony unfortunately negatively. While I don't recall Sony…
> that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere It did a great deal more than that. It also allowed the toggling of VoNR, which apparently affected the fallback behavior of some people's services. (Ie. It would fall back…
The major carriers perhaps, but support among the MVNOs isn't universal. Number sharing support for smart watch usage is almost non-existent among the MVNOs in Australia. Eg. ALDI (yes, the German supermarket chain run…
They've pulled out of my market (Australia) 6 years ago, so that's not really an option, even if I imported one. If I imported one, the majority of the handsets released before this year wouldn't be able to register on…
It's still a pretty hard question to answer, given how specific model numbers are sometimes missing on sales listings, and silent revisions to hardware.
Most likely referring to CVE-2018-6242 aka "Fusée Gelée" The paperclip was just the easiest way of triggering RCM, which is a standard feature on Tegra. The vulnerability lay in that they didn't bounds check certain…
I'm surprised that there are modern Tegra devices shipping with identical SBK across their production line. I would have thought they'd do some mixing based on serial number or chip id as a baseline. Or at least that's…
From what I can tell of the block diagram, dropping the 2x 1gbit ports would not yield you a 2nd 10G SFP, as those would be running off the integrated switch as opposed to one of two USXGMII interfaces. You would have…
I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading. Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use…
It's a shame that Intel seemed to really not want people to use it, given they started disabling the ability to use it in future microcode, and fused it off in later parts.
For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks. Obviously the illicit tobacco…
The sad thing is, the WRT3200ACM has more or less an unmaintained wifi driver, with 802.11w (and thus WPA3) possibly broken within the radio firmware itself. I believe there are other issues regarding regulatory…
In addition to the wifi, I recall the preloader at the start of the boot chain is also a binary blob, which handles some of the chip init and memory calibration for the DDR4.
Not too surprising given what I've seen of their vendor sdk driver source code, compared to mt76. (Messy would be kind assessment) Unfortunately, there are also some running aftermarket firmware builds with the vendor…
> Somehow, someone was intercepting and replaying the web traffic from likely every single device on my home network. Normally I'd laugh and assume device compromise but... The largest ISP in Australia (Telstra) got…
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes…
I would have pointed you towards the BPI-R4, but they haven't quite got the accessories around it out the door yet. (Ie. The 802.11be radio add-on card and the case are not available yet)
The Wyze Pan v3 has secure boot fused as well. Unfortunately for them, the implementation of it is broken because it only verified the first 32 bits of the signature, so thingino (a 3rd party firmware replacement) now…
> This is probably obvious to most people, but I will mention just the same: do not install the antenna that the TV comes with. Wifi antennas would typically be internal and unrelated to the one F-Type coaxial connector…
> I like the EPOMAKER Magicforce Smart2 68-Key layout [0] . No QMK, but I get by with Karabiner, etc. Many Epomaker boards are just licensed to be sold under their brand name, most of them fairly transparently. (Ie.…
On this subject since it's an Australian seller and marketed as "DV safe". Australia has a national test of it's phone alert system in 10 days at 27/07/26, 2PM AEST. (People in North America would know it as Cell…
It did however deliver the hilarious quote "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", in regards to end-to-end encrypted messaging.[1] It went…
I suspected something along these lines was possible when I looked at this provider a couple months ago. If I recall, I had a fairly decent view of their various checks because it was delivered completely unminified,…
If I recall, for something like GPON or XGS-PON, you end up having to clone the various attributes of the original for it to work properly. This typically includes serial number, hardware id, firmware identifiers, etc.
Qualcomm kind of does this with their XPAN extension, sends the audio over local network. I believe it's mostly a proprietary solution though, so I haven't seen any serious attempts to re-implement it yet.
> Most vendors gave the security researchers either silent treatment or were slow, even after Airoha published fixes. Jabra was one of the positive outlier, Sony unfortunately negatively. While I don't recall Sony…
> that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere It did a great deal more than that. It also allowed the toggling of VoNR, which apparently affected the fallback behavior of some people's services. (Ie. It would fall back…
The major carriers perhaps, but support among the MVNOs isn't universal. Number sharing support for smart watch usage is almost non-existent among the MVNOs in Australia. Eg. ALDI (yes, the German supermarket chain run…
They've pulled out of my market (Australia) 6 years ago, so that's not really an option, even if I imported one. If I imported one, the majority of the handsets released before this year wouldn't be able to register on…
It's still a pretty hard question to answer, given how specific model numbers are sometimes missing on sales listings, and silent revisions to hardware.
Most likely referring to CVE-2018-6242 aka "Fusée Gelée" The paperclip was just the easiest way of triggering RCM, which is a standard feature on Tegra. The vulnerability lay in that they didn't bounds check certain…
I'm surprised that there are modern Tegra devices shipping with identical SBK across their production line. I would have thought they'd do some mixing based on serial number or chip id as a baseline. Or at least that's…
From what I can tell of the block diagram, dropping the 2x 1gbit ports would not yield you a 2nd 10G SFP, as those would be running off the integrated switch as opposed to one of two USXGMII interfaces. You would have…
I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading. Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use…
It's a shame that Intel seemed to really not want people to use it, given they started disabling the ability to use it in future microcode, and fused it off in later parts.
For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks. Obviously the illicit tobacco…
The sad thing is, the WRT3200ACM has more or less an unmaintained wifi driver, with 802.11w (and thus WPA3) possibly broken within the radio firmware itself. I believe there are other issues regarding regulatory…
In addition to the wifi, I recall the preloader at the start of the boot chain is also a binary blob, which handles some of the chip init and memory calibration for the DDR4.
Not too surprising given what I've seen of their vendor sdk driver source code, compared to mt76. (Messy would be kind assessment) Unfortunately, there are also some running aftermarket firmware builds with the vendor…
> Somehow, someone was intercepting and replaying the web traffic from likely every single device on my home network. Normally I'd laugh and assume device compromise but... The largest ISP in Australia (Telstra) got…
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes…
I would have pointed you towards the BPI-R4, but they haven't quite got the accessories around it out the door yet. (Ie. The 802.11be radio add-on card and the case are not available yet)