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Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle

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320 points zdw | 2 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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baq ◴[17 Jan 25 20:53 UTC] No.42743115[source]▶
RJ45 nazi here: these should be called 8P8C

I’ll show myself out

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polpo ◴[17 Jan 25 22:39 UTC] No.42744028[source]▶
I don't mind calling the connector an RJ45, but calling this thing an "RJ45 dongle" makes my eye twitch. It's an Ethernet dongle - RJ45 can be used for a lot of other things. For example I've seen "RJ45 dongles" that convert USB to RS232 serial for the console ports on a lot of networking equipment.
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sgerenser ◴[18 Jan 25 00:44 UTC] No.42744746[source]▶
At least they didn’t call it a wired WiFi dongle.
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1. RyJones ◴[18 Jan 25 03:42 UTC] No.42745621[source]▶
I did wired WiFi for CES one year. Made having our iot devices on WiFi on the floor much better than other vendors. It’s a long boring story but it was a fun hack.
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2. _shantaram ◴[18 Jan 25 07:09 UTC] No.42746510[source]▶
Spill!