Finally, at last I found a way to hack my parents' Xiaomi router. Now that I've got root access to it, I can now fix it, so it's able to.. you know... route traffic.

Because stock router's firmware only operates as a NAT device. Not a router.

The measures we have to take to get shit fixed.....

Whoa, wouldn't want Xiaomi with stock firmware in my network anyway.

Is that thing worth the effort? :P Sounds cheap!

But it's just for fun, huh?

@electrineer I don't trust it either. At all. But it is what it is. And the signal strength and radius is quite good.

It's not mine, so I don't have a say in this :) But no one says I can't exploit an RCE in its web-UI to enable ssh access with root privileges and play around a bit with those sweet iptables rules :)))

@retoor while it IS fun, the router is there to stay until the owner says otherwise. And I'm supposed to use it or nothing at all.

Now that forwarding and masquerade are enabled, I can use it properly. So yeah, I guess it IS worth it.

@electrineer interestingly, it comes with openwrt 18.06 preinstalled!

@netikras can you install official openwrt on it?

@electrineer i guess so. There are instructions at least. However, since it's not mine, I'm not doing that :)

Very few things make me as angry as having to fix someone else’s production code/product/etc.

It’s crap, they know it’s crap, and yet they lied through their teeth about it and sold it!? Such people are goddamned trash and deserve to be lit on fire.

@Root Yeah, but the feeling when you finally find a way and give it to everyone else who up until now had to endure that crap…

@cprn … and get ignored, or chewed out for “wasting time” on it. Yeah. Great feeling.

@Root Holly crap, that lovely parasite doesn't let you sleep at all, does it? Got you all cynical and shit. 😆

Okay, I should've said “that magical feeling… once every 10 to 20 cases”. 😂

Congrats again! 🎉🍾🥂

@cprn haha yeah okay

I know what you mean though. I really miss making other people’s lives better and watching them brighten up because of it. It’s like watering the garden and seeing it bloom.

And yep. Not much sleep for me. It isn’t making me cynical though. (That was $work)

And thanks! ❤️