daniel:// stenberg://Dec 7, 2023

How the first gen ipod was reverse engineered to run #Rockbox:

1. Someone figured out that when loading a particular HTML page (for viewing on the device), the device would reboot. It crashed. A buffer overflow in the HTML viewer!

2. The device remembered what it did before the crash, so it would reload the HTML page again after boot. Unless you connected to it over USB and removed the HTML file it would stick in this cycle.

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Show threadMattias Wadman
@bagder nice story! reminds me of https://web.archive.org/web/20070126061215/http://ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo/ :)
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Dec 7, 2023 at 9:42amWeb
Show threadCedDec 7, 2023
@wader thanks sooo much… I remember reading that page back in the days and I could not find it again for the sake of me.
Show threadMattias WadmanDec 7, 2023
@Ced first thought maybe it was badger who wrote it back in days but was separate hack! :)