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Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008

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Router hacking is nothing new. According to Hackaday, this hobby of reverse-engineering and modifying consumer routers has been around since at least the early two-thousands. The publication takes a look back at how a generation of hardware enthusiasts got inside their own networking equipment.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/hacking-routers-like-its-2008/

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