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Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) (samcurry.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by moira@femboys.bar to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This article is a great example why you should use your own router instead of ISP provided one

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not a programmer but is it normal that the login page contains the whole main JavaScript code of a logged in user?

Also, what’s the point of having this kind of client side api? Because you can never trust the client shouldn’t be everything server side and only return a html page with the data related to your account?

[–] moira@femboys.bar 2 points 5 months ago

It doesn't matter that website loads javascript code for logged in user, as you need a token (which server will give you after a successful login) to authenticate to apis, it is pretty common to do that way

There wasn't a client side API, but the API was missing crucial validation of user input (eg only checking the mac address but didn't check who is actually authenticated)