updated pelicanconf, adds pocketbook disassembly post

content/pocketbook_dissassembly_and_root.md

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+Title: PocketBook Dissassembly and root
+Date: 2017-08-01T21:39+02:00
+Author: Wxcafé
+Category: idk
+Slug: pocketbook_dissassembly_and_root
+
+
+So uh a few years (! time flies) back I wanted to get an ereader to...
+*(e-read?)* read books for cheap and not carry a suitcase of paperbacks whenever
+I traveled (plus a lot of other advantages. I like ebooks, they're tiny,
+convenient and disposable. There are lots of books I prefer reading on paper,
+but I can't deny ebooks are neat sometimes. Anyway).
+
+I already had a Kindle Touch (I think that's the 3rd version of the kindle? idk
+tho) but I wanted something both more recent and with a bigger screen, because
+I kinda enjoy being able to read PDFs and doing that on a Kindle is torture.
+
+So I went looking for a reasonably sized ebook reader, of which there were (at
+the time) none. After much digging I finally found the [PocketBook
+InkPad](http://www.pocketbook-int.com/fr/products/pocketbook-inkpad) which is an
+8" e-reader with backlight and physical buttons, which sounded exactly like what
+I wanted! So I ordered one and got it delivered a few days later.
+
+Now this device works pretty well on its own. It's a bit small to read full-size
+PDFs but it's still better than 6" readers are, and even tho it doesn't have
+access to a bundled ebook shop you can always load your own books (which is what
+I intended to do anyway, hello [Library Genesis](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/)). But
+after a bit I wanted to try and do more with it, so I installed
+[koreader](https://github.com/koreader/koreader), which is an aftermarket ebook
+reader app for kindle, kobo, etc, and supports this thing. The installation is
+really easy, it's a matter of dropping the code into an `applications` folder
+(there are a few system libraries to install too and that's done the same way:
+drop the code into the root of the usb mount).
+
+So then I spent a few months reading books on this (I recommend The Unix Haters
+Handbook, which, while I largely don't agree with much that's on it and it's
+pretty outdated, is really entertaining), and before I knew it I found myself
+disassembling it, and owning the embedded OS running on it. Here's how that
+went (with recent pictures, since I opened it up again to write this!)
+
+So first of all, here's how it looks, before I get my hands on it. Pretty plain,
+no screws, no visible point of entry. 
+
+![untouched](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/01_glamour_shot.JPG)
+
+The right way (there is never only *one* way to open a device. In fact, there is
+always a very large number of ways to open a device, but most often there's only
+a few ways to open it up while being able to get it working again afterwards) to
+open this thing is to unclip the front (display plus button area) from the back.
+No glue! Yay! It's just a bunch of clips, pretty stiff too, so keep going at
+them and after a while they'll unclip
+
+![pick_one](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/02_pick_1.JPG)
+![pick_two](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/03_pick_2.JPG)
+
+After that, just pull the front and the back apart and it's open. Easy! I'm not
+going to elaborate further into the disassembly because from then on there's
+glue everywhere and since I *do* use that ereader I don't want it to be FUBAR.
+
+Anyway, here are a few shots of the open device:
+
+![open_double](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/04_open_double.JPG)
+![open_single](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/05_open_single.JPG)
+
+and a few closeups. My favorite thing about this device is that it's advertised
+as 4 Gigs of flash storage and... well, it does contain 4Gigs of flash, but not
+really how other manufacturers do it
+
+![closeup_flash](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/06_closeup_microSD.JPG)
+
+Here are a few closeups of the mobo. It looks pretty good, considering. It could
+probably be 50% smaller but since the device itself is so large and the battery
+consumption of eInk screens is so low, why bother?
+
+![closeup_top](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/07_closeup_top.JPG)
+
+![closeup_SN](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/08_closeup_SN.JPG)
+
+Also, my device got a note at manufacture time (I'm guessing QC but who knows?)
+and I have *no idea* what it says/means. If you have something, please tell me
+
+![closeup_note](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/09_closeup_note.JPG)
+
+
+Anyway. Of course, once I was done admiring the board, I wanted to dig into the
+OS. Since I had the "flash", I could just dump the OS from there, take a look,
+and be done with it, but knowing my motivation if I just dumped it I would never
+have gotten around to take a look at it, so I decided to get a shell on the damn
+thing. Since there are serial headers on there, I popped out my USB<->serial
+cable and plugged it right in.
+
+![closeup_serial](https://pub.wxcafe.net/img/10_closeup_serial.JPG)
+
+This thing listens at 112500 bauds, instead of (the more usual) 9600. So just
+start `screen /dev/ttyUSB0 112500` and it's all good. Then boot the thing.
+You'll see a nice bootlog pass by, and then you'll be stuck without any response
+to inputs.
+
+Here's such a bootlog from my device (it also contains a suspend event and
+a shutdown event): [html](https://pub.wxcafe.net/pocketbook_log_boot.html) and
+[text](https://pub.wxcafe.net/pocketbook_log_boot.txt)
+
+Of course, that's nice, but at some point we said we wanted to get a shell on
+it. Well, worry not, because a manufacturer who misspells **attached** as
+**Atached** can't be that good on security. And well, of course,, pressing `^C`
+while the device is booting will interrupt the boot process and give us a nice,
+cozy root shell that we can then use to do anything to the device... which we
+pretty much already could do anyway since a good part of the system folders are
+exposed through the USB mode. But let me enjoy my victory and take a look at the
+way to enable an SSH server at boot, so that it becomes a little more
+comfortable hacking on this thing:
+[html](https://pub.wxcafe.net/pocketbook_log_root.html) and
+[text](https://pub.wxcafe.net/pocketbook_log_root.txt)
+
+Once that's done don't forget to either drop your key into root's trusted keys
+folder or to set root's password, and you can now, uh, ssh to your e-reader. Why
+would you want to do that? WELL I DON'T KNOW YOU GO FIGURE IT OUT!
+
+Anyway, that's all I had for today. Oh and don't worry, the e-reader still
+works, perfectly! I did say at the beginning that I was gonna use the *right*
+way to open it!

pelicanconf.py

@@ -29,10 +29,19 @@ AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None
 AUTHOR_FEED_RSS = None
 FEED_ALL_ATOM = None
 
-MD_EXTENSIONS = [
+MARKDOWN = {
-        'codehilite(linenums=False, guess_lang=True, noclasses=True, pygments_style=monokai)',
+        'extension_configs': {
-        'smarty',
+            'markdown.extensions.codehilite': {
-        'extra']
+                'linenums': False,
+                'guess_lang': True,
+                'noclasses': True,
+                'pygments_style': 'monokai'
+            },
+            'markdown.extensions.smarty': {},
+            'markdown.extensions.extra': {},
+        },
+        'output_format': 'html5',
+    }
 
 # Social
 SOCIAL = (