{"id":29380,"date":"2023-09-14T05:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29380"},"modified":"2023-09-14T05:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:11:58","slug":"india-wish-i-could-have-hacked-that-sign-in-durgapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29380","title":{"rendered":"India &#8211; wish I could have hacked that sign in Durgapur&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12990054\/0#c0\">https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12990054\/0#c0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wxboy: These types of signs are well-known for being trivial to &#8220;hack&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth.\u00a0 On a business trip to India, the security gate as this MegaCorp factory I was working at had an LED sign, scrolling various info for the workers.\u00a0 I noted it had an old PC-XT 5-pin DIN connector to plug in a keyboard.\u00a0 I watched a guy plug one in and, with one keystroke the display blanked; I took this to mean no username\/password required.\u00a0 Just a PC-XT keyboard or a converter for the smaller AT keyboard plug.<br>All I had with me was USB keyboard and no convertor.\u00a0 So no hijinks on my part.\u00a0 It would have been respectful.<br>Also, the gate guards had pistols, never would have happened.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12990054\/0#c0 wxboy: These types of signs are well-known for being trivial to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[70,41,46,997],"class_list":["post-29380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine","tag-hacking","tag-india","tag-it-security","tag-quickmill","wpcat-376-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29380\/revisions\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}