Flashing Booby-Trapped Cisco AP With OpenWRT, The Hard Way

The Meraki AP PCB on a desk, case-less, with three USB-UARTs connected to its pins - one for interacting with the device, and two for monitoring both of the UART data lines.

Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice access point …read more Continue reading Flashing Booby-Trapped Cisco AP With OpenWRT, The Hard Way