Hello All!
2 Stories b4 the question.
1) My friend's oven has a setting where it goes into warm mode ( 200 F) after baking something. He looked on the internet and learnt that he can increase this warm time to 45 minutes by pushing the 'Bake' button 9 times while holding the 'Cancel' button and then quickly pushing the 'Broil' button 4 times.
2) I saw a video where I can reset the paper count on my printer by pushing a certain button 6 times and opening and closing the ink door quickly and then hitting cancel 4 times.
In both cases, how did the 'hacker-dudes' who put this info out on the internet figure this backdoor method of hacking the hardware?
Do you think they found out a schematic of the IC of the oven/ printer and sat around and figured out how to reset the hardware? Even if they have a schematic, coming up with the combinations of inputs to make a certain piece of hardware do something doesn't seem like an easy task.
Please let me know how you think people can just 'figure out' these backdoor methods?
As always, thank you for your replies!!
( Yes, in both cases I am assuming that the 'hacker-dudes' didn't get their hands on some sort of troubleshooting technical manual that the manufacturers of the oven and printer might have made it available for their repair team)
2 Stories b4 the question.
1) My friend's oven has a setting where it goes into warm mode ( 200 F) after baking something. He looked on the internet and learnt that he can increase this warm time to 45 minutes by pushing the 'Bake' button 9 times while holding the 'Cancel' button and then quickly pushing the 'Broil' button 4 times.
2) I saw a video where I can reset the paper count on my printer by pushing a certain button 6 times and opening and closing the ink door quickly and then hitting cancel 4 times.
In both cases, how did the 'hacker-dudes' who put this info out on the internet figure this backdoor method of hacking the hardware?
Do you think they found out a schematic of the IC of the oven/ printer and sat around and figured out how to reset the hardware? Even if they have a schematic, coming up with the combinations of inputs to make a certain piece of hardware do something doesn't seem like an easy task.
Please let me know how you think people can just 'figure out' these backdoor methods?
As always, thank you for your replies!!
( Yes, in both cases I am assuming that the 'hacker-dudes' didn't get their hands on some sort of troubleshooting technical manual that the manufacturers of the oven and printer might have made it available for their repair team)