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by Arrath 1681 days ago
Reminds me of the article on HN some months ago where someone got a form of Lunix running on the controller SoC within a hard drive. Incredible what power is being packed into other devices, these days.
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http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack perhaps, with the backdoor that adds an extra user when /etc/shadow is read from the drive?
That's the one I was thinking of!
Satirical news/blog stories are my favorite part of the old internet. Really with they would have a comeback. The long form written humor is a lot more fun to me than something like Twitter.
This feels like a rabbit hole, my my.
Why lunix? I assume you mean Linux, I've seen it written this way a few times and am wondering where it comes from
Typo, nothing more nothing less.