Everything I own, owned

	Everything I own, owned(schlarp.com)
	1419 points by schlarpc 17 days ago \| 347 comments
	tl;dr: Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network...
	HN Discussion: ↑Sharing personal experiences of reverse engineering and modifying their own hardware ↑LLMs/AI agents dramatically lower the barrier to reverse engineering and firmware hacking ~Regulations and manufacturer security measures increasingly prevent true ownership of devices ~Concern about security risks when firmware can be silently modified (e.g., disabling camera LEDs, WebUSB backdoors) ↓Author hasn't gone far enough - without working patches applied, the device isn't truly owned