Backfire 10.03 factory reset procedure

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@_bernd

"but we will all die" is just noise.

Not true. See:

[SOLVED] How do you upgrade Kamikaze?

LOL, I thought for a moment "maybe they thought I was trolling them!" Well, long history short, this series device was a common one in the "Tech Bubble" days. I accumulated 4 over the years and used a WRT54G daily until ~2015 when I got FTTH (their throughput limit was ~30 Mbps LAN-to-WAN). These were my DD-WRT days - I stopped using OpenWrt for years as a beginner, over confusion as to why it could not do what DD-WRT called "Wireless Client Bridge." I now know about the Broadcom …

@_bernd

but all of you have practical zero insight in what context this device is running

Correct. No need to be rude, though.

@_bernd

The same argument does not mature better if 5 person repeat it.

Perhaps you shouldn't have asked, which is why I asked that you not say stop. I thank you; but didn't expect the rudeness, though. You asked what could occur with WAN closed by default - then you suggest some extraordinarily special use case.

So I highlighted mine as well.

@_bernd

And yes you are so right the person is just screwed by running this device because north Korean hackers are just everywhere and have just waited for such a high stake target.

Actuall,y there's bots/scanners/malware that scan and try public IPs 24/7/365.

Honesty, these exploits on old firmware are n00b-script-level, not state-actor level (it seems you're trying to imply the the notion is far-fetched by mentioning N. Kor.