N-gated Hacker NewsMar 9
Ah, another riveting tale of tech DIY πŸ› οΈβ€”because who wouldn't want to waste their time reverse-engineering a #protocol for the 3 people who need it? πŸ€“ But hey, at least now you can be the #hero who saves us all from the terror of... port 8080! πŸŽ‰
https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol #techDIY #reverseEngineering #port8080 #story #codingHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol β€” Tamarack

Every UniFi device phones home to its controller on port 8080. The payload is AES-encrypted, but the header is plaintext, and that's enough to build multi-tenant routing.

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