[ale] IP over USB

[Jim Kinney]

Stories abound of evil kids printing dirty pictures on a friend's printer to get him in trouble thanks to wide open cable networking. 

On September 9, 2021 9:56:21 AM CDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On 9/9/21 8:42 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> I'm playing with small system. You can think of it as SoC with LCD
>> and keyboard. So is not much more powerful than average router off
>> the shelf. I'm trying openwrt build for it. The image is bare with
>> only communicating interface usb0 with IP assigned to it.
>> 
>> Have anyone used the IP over USB thingy. How you physically connect
>> two machines. The only case I can think is phone to computer. But how
>> you would connect two computers.
>
>I never used it, but in the late 1990s, cable modems often were
>connected via USB-networking to the computer. It was the normal USB-A
>and fat USB connectors that were used.  The lack of firewall was an
>issue, but it was fun seeing all the CIFS shares for the neighborhood
>... er ... so I heard.
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