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   4Dgifts (4dgifts@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:28:35 JST 4Dgifts

   A colleague spent his 6-month internship reversing Starlink's dish.
   Here are the results and the tools he built. Nice work on nicely engineered hardware.

   https://blog.quarkslab.com/starlink.html

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:28:31 JST see shy jo

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     @4Dgifts "Unfortunately, the open-source version of Linux published by SpaceX is 5.10.90, while the one found on the dish was 5.15.55"

     Oh cool, so I have a GPL violation mounted in my blueberry garden.

     #starlink

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:29:18 JST see shy jo

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     @4Dgifts that SoftwareUpdateRequest GRPC they found looks like it could be used for a downgrade attack, if an older version of the firmware has some useful property

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