HACKING A MEDION WIFI STREAMING RADIO discovered AT ALDI

On a buying trip at Aldi [Aaron Christophel] came across this Medion streaming gadget which links to your house network by means of WiFi as well as works as an Web radio. He couldn’t withstand getting one, as well as handled to do rather a bit of hacking on the device (translated) when he got it home.

His very first buy of service was a hardware teardown. An inspection of the board showed what was undoubtedly an unpopulated footprint for a USB tiny jack. He added the component, believing it would enable him to link it to a computer, however that didn’t work. To check out the problem additionally he linked to the device’s serial port utilizing the hard-to-guess credentials root as well as password. It’s running a Linux kernel as well as the lsusb command exposed that the USB is enabled as hold mode. This indicate you can connect mass storage… sweet!

He likewise did some firmware hacking. above is the confirmation screen for flashing his modified picture file. This resulted in a custom-made sprinkle screen when it boots up.