Hacker News Reader

MIPS? Wow. Would not have expected that! I guess they went as low budget as possible.

That key tho. /facepalm/ They REALLY don't care about security. Seriously, at least get PSA level 1 FFS and use TLS. But I doubt a cheap-ass MIPS has the horsepower for a handshake.

View on HN

In the 90-ies I was told to figure out what was wrong with the big radiocontrolled port at a local industry. I don't remember what was wrong with it but after digging in the manual and the equipment I realized the whole factory was protected by a four bit code set with dip-switches on a circuit board. I guess it was supposed to be used to select what port to open with the remote but was all that was stopping anyone to open the door at all.

I know some MediaTek WLAN chips come with MIPS cores clocked at more or less 1 Ghz, like the MT7621. TLS should be trivial; I believe the thing that matters is how much time/money/design the company is willing to spend on security.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com