bcovertigo

I agree with you in principle but that doesn’t really help us much when poorly wrought digital devices get compromised en masse. I can say “Mirai” and way too much of the population knows that it’s an IoT botnet.

Those default passwords and superfluous software packages are cut corners, and directly translate to risk in your own home. Maybe you don’t feel that 2025 has been enough years of neglect to start calling it malfeasance , but if they’re tired of shit breaking and getting hacked and losing support I can definitely see the point of keeping more analog devices to minimize those risks.

Opportunity makes the thief, right?

Yeah you 100% have the right of this. Not a secret at all and very clearly documented on their github.

https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM

https://github.com/sipeed/sipeed_wiki/blob/main/docs/hardware/en/lichee/RV_Nano/1_intro.md

Would you stop?