A Belgian hacker claims that root-access is obtained to the Digicorder, cable company Telenet. The hacker was via a 4-pin header on the motherboard, access to the Linux firmware on the device.
The Belgian Yvan Janssens discovered that the Digicorder AD-2100 from Telenet, a rebranded ADB-5723CX of the company ADB Global, automatically a new hard drive, formatted as in the device was placed. He also saw a 4-pin header connection with the description of ‘uart0’ on the system board. By a usb to serial port cable from the header to link, the Linux operating system, accessible through a break through the consoleverbinding to send.
Through the launch of a telnet daemon has Janssens root-access is obtained to the firmware, and it proved to be possible to use your own scripts to run. So he was able to get the lcd to send from the command line. In addition, it remains possible to get the tv application to start.
Janssens also notes that the Digicorder runs on Linux kernel 2.6.18, and that the manual of Telenet nevertheless, no GPL-notice. The hacker is still trying to ftp-server functionality on the device to add, and to see how their own binaries on the device can be rotated.