vxo, 2 months ago

@foone that sounds a lot like certain pieces of multi kilobuck broadcast equipment I work with which would immediately turn into a pile of ashes if exposed to the public Internet

lolcat, 2 months ago

@foone

Believe it or not, that's how a lot of the Internet operated until ~2000. Lots of X11 terminals with zero encryption of anything, aside from /etc/passwd, which was world readable. If you wanted a dump of accounts at a remote site, just telnet into their sendmail server and ask it. Etc, etc, etc.

ids1024, 2 months ago

@foone That's one way to comply with the GPLv3 "tivoization" clause.

foone, 2 months ago

@ids1024 this device predates gpl3!

foone, 2 months ago

no https and no authentication on the web interface anyway. if you are on the same network you can just upload a new system image to it

foone, 2 months ago

Look, I know developers who use security and they're all cowards

foone, 2 months ago

It has optional wifi! Because having this thing be wireless is the only way they could make it worse

dannotdaniel, 2 months ago

@foone does it have stabby knives 🔪🔪🔪

foone, 2 months ago

I accidentally left it on all weekend.
I hope no bad actors on are on my network

indigoparadox, 2 months ago

@foone I would be kinda pysched if Tommy Wiseau were on my network. I would want him to autograph the copy of The Room on my Plex server.

foone, 2 months ago

@indigoparadox one of my roommate's girl(?)friends is a tenant of Tommy Wiseau, so I'm sure I could work that.

AT1ST, 2 months ago

@foone @indigoparadox Wait, Tommy Wiseau is a landlord?

foone, 2 months ago

@AT1ST @indigoparadox yep. I believe he was before The Room. He owns a couple buildings around SF