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Re: SSH scans, i caught one


From: Egon Alter <egon.alter () gmx net>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:54:11 +0100

On 11/20/2010 02:58 PM, Robin wrote:
MIPS is very common in routers - most home ones I've seen are MIPS. As
for purpose, it's a good place to DDoS from, because it's very hard to
detect. It's also a very nice place to sniff passwords from, as you get
a whole network's traffic passing through, and it's extremely hard to
detect.

Most homerouters I've seen are ARM, I actually never had a MIPS :)
Guess its time to setup Qemu-MIPS to see what it does exactly.

AR7 from TI is a famous MIPS-based cpu used in many voip routers.

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