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0xDEADC0DE

OpenWrt firmware marker

category
sentinel
normalized
deadc0de
confirmed
2026-05-21
lookups
1
source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

"Dead code": marks the end of the squashfs filesystem in OpenWrt firmware images, where the writable JFFS2 partition begins. Also a general hexspeak filler.

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