October 26, 2023 Tags: #RetroComputing #SecurityHistory #DataArchaeology #Zeeboinc
"We assumed the modem would be opaque. It wasn't. It was running a stripped Linux with default passwords." — Excerpt from an internal post-mortem, archived as ZB-SEC-INT-2009-11-13.pdf
Running these archives in a production environment—or even a home lab connected to the internet—is akin to driving a car with no brakes. It might move, but eventually, you’re going to crash.