termain@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour spanarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1201arrow-down13
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minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoOpenWRT uses Lua for its web UI. The interpreter can be really small which works well for tiny embedded devices with mere megabytes of storage, and it’s much safer than writing a web GUI entirely in C.
minus-squareStarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoYeah I completely forgot about the consumer side of things. I was expecting there being Cisco iOS/FRR router configs, not a full web dashboard.
OpenWRT uses Lua for its web UI. The interpreter can be really small which works well for tiny embedded devices with mere megabytes of storage, and it’s much safer than writing a web GUI entirely in C.
Yeah I completely forgot about the consumer side of things. I was expecting there being Cisco iOS/FRR router configs, not a full web dashboard.