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Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them
Thursday October 17, 2024. 12:02 AM , from Slashdot
Recently the operating system for Redbox kiosks was dumped online, and this community is now probing it to see how it works. In a thread on Mastodon, reverse engineer Foone Turing has been posting some of her findings, which include the fact that Redbox machines contain a file that has 'a complete list of titles ever rented, and the email addresses of the people who rented them, and where and when.' She also found that the first six and last four digits of credit card information was logged. She said that the records on the particular unit that she was looking at contained 2,471 different transactions and had records on it dating back to 2015. Other reverse engineers have found that Redbox kiosks contained information about the physical locations of every other kiosk. The server that they communicated with is currently offline (because the company is bankrupt). But people have also been putting together information about what different error codes in the software mean (for example, the error code '0020BDT' would happen when an obstruction was detected in the machine). They have also found and dumped service manuals for different parts of the device and have found a few login passwords (one password is 'US#1Choice4movierentals'). There has also been discussion about how the machines could be modified to talk to a new server, or whether the operating system could be put on a DIY Redbox device. Another person installed Minecraft on their Redbox. It is still very early days, but, with the bankruptcy of Redbox's parent company, ironically these devices are being given new life. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/10/16/2039249/tinkerers-are-taking-old-redbox-kiosks-hom...
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