termain@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour spanarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareStarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoAs someone who works with 100Gbps networking: why the heck do these routers run Lua of all things???
minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months 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.
As someone who works with 100Gbps networking:
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.