[Sysreq2]

Relevant: https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems

[metadat]

This is a fun article. It was also discussed at the time:

Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570781 - June 2024 (13 comments)

[password4321]

As per your link the actual discussion is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560010 (277 comments)

[metadat]

Thanks for the backfill! That's a much better link.

[nojs]

In that story why was the replaying of HTTP requests so suspicious? They were cleartext requests sent over the internet, anyone could have seen the path.

[LegionMammal978]

Just because it's physically possible for someone to passively MITM a connection doesn't mean everyone and their dog is actually listening in on it. If they were, there'd be a booming industry of leaking celebrities' scandalous DNS requests. Instead, I'd suspect that actual actors with that capability wouldn't be burning it on small-time replay attacks.