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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

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163 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 20:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jerf ◴[15 Nov 24 14:49 UTC] No.42147397[source]▶
> Never put a console running DC Linux outside of a firewall: it is an intentionally insecure system. Any bot scanning your network will get root immediately.

Yeah, that's really important advice. They'll get root, and then they'll... ummm... they'll... hmmmmm.... ahhh.... Be really confused? Start mining monero? Sideload Crazy Taxi and start playing it on your Dreamcast?

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1. SuperNinKenDo ◴[16 Nov 24 13:07 UTC] No.42156227[source]▶
Well, a known problem with pre v4 NFS is that it uses and trusts client side UIDs I believe, In fact I believe even v4 does this by default. So if I understand correctly, it treats root on the client like root on the server, and since NFS gives direct access to the block device this is even worse than it initially sounds.