My audio interface has SSH enabled by default • Hacker News Board

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by JadeNB » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

serious_angel wrote: post #7

hhh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because its fun to tear stuff apart and poke at it, and I am writing to share with people and for fun, not as a business.

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You expressed your opinion once. I think that there's no need to shit on the post again.

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by buildbot » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

rikafurude21 wrote: post #9

Its still crazy to me that everyone has a pocket AI-hacker ready to inspect firmware and modify their devices now. You just put the agent on it and it gives you access in minutes. You would have to be a Hotz tier hacker if you wanted to do anything close to this only last year, or at the very least extremely patient for long hours.

This 1000% - I’ve used AI to enable SSH in one Phase One digital back I own, and to reverse engineer and patch the firmware on another to make the back think it’s a different back - Credo 50 to IQ250! The internals are literally the Sam.

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by hhh » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

rikafurude21 wrote: post #9

Its still crazy to me that everyone has a pocket AI-hacker ready to inspect firmware and modify their devices now. You just put the agent on it and it gives you access in minutes. You would have to be a Hotz tier hacker if you wanted to do anything close to this only last year, or at the very least extremely patient for long hours.

its really nice to not have to spend hours looking thru packet captures and stuff, i enjoy digging but as i'm getting older I have less time to spend 16 hour days looking at random firmware blobs

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by strbean » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC

rikafurude21 wrote: post #9

Its still crazy to me that everyone has a pocket AI-hacker ready to inspect firmware and modify their devices now. You just put the agent on it and it gives you access in minutes. You would have to be a Hotz tier hacker if you wanted to do anything close to this only last year, or at the very least extremely patient for long hours.

Damn, maybe I can throw an agent at trying to unlock IMEI spoofing on my Unifi LTE modem. That one guy on twitter who does all the LTE modem unlocking never replied to my tweet :(

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by montecarl » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

I really want to know how he solved this problem, which I also face:

>last year i bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes to allow myself and my girlfriend to have microphones to our respective computers when gaming together and talking on discord in the same room without any echo

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by EvanAnderson » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:35 PM UTC

yonatan8070 wrote: post #2

Having the firmware image just be a boring old tarball + hash sounds super nice. I wish more devices were this open, and I hope Rode won't see this and decide to lock the firmware upgrades down.

In the off chance anybody from Rode sees this: This makes me want to purchase your gear. Don't change it.

It's funny this comes up now. Tomorrow I'm dragging my Zoom R20 recorder on-site to use as an overly-featured USB audio interface for a single-mic live stream. If I'd know this about Rode a week ago I'd have purchased one of these and could have left my R20 hooked-up in the home studio!

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by EvanAnderson » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

vablings wrote: post #10

hhh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not really an objective, I hope RODE continues to keep it open

https://github.com/ThomasStolt/Copy-Recordings-Off-Rodecaste... It used to be completely open lol

That's sad.

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by coldcity_again » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

Nice writeup and great domain. I don't know Zola and don't know if this is a common template or a custom jobbie but it's lovely.

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by hhh » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

montecarl wrote: post #15

I really want to know how he solved this problem, which I also face: >last year i bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes to allow myself and my girlfriend to have microphones to our respective computers when gaming together and talking on discord in the same room without any echo

the rodecaster can connect to two computers, and we are both generally in the same discord call. so we have both microphones routed into one input for a computer, and the other person joins with their mic muted and the audio just comes from one client. since the mixing is local there's no echo. email me if you have more questions :)

Re: My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

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Post by NikolaNovak » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:41 PM UTC

montecarl wrote: post #15

I really want to know how he solved this problem, which I also face: >last year i bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes to allow myself and my girlfriend to have microphones to our respective computers when gaming together and talking on discord in the same room without any echo

Doesn't a headset with directional boom microphone do the trick? I may be misinterpreting the problem statement though :-).