A firmware update broke a series of popular third-party exercise apps. A developer fixed it, winning a $20,000 bounty from Louis Rossmann.
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Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software
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kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Sure would be a shame if a hacker from a country that doesn’t prosecute these sorts of things (e.g. most of eastern Europe) noticed that the dev was keeping all of the source on an otherwise blank computer with a default password.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 hours ago
My first thought was “why is this in the news?” It should’ve been released anonymously using Tor or i2p.
Obviously that makes receiving the county much more difficult unless the Foundation would be willing to pay via Monero (or something else).