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tjoff • today at 4:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Sure but as easy it is to hack these devices as easy it is to harden it.

So this only works on products that was developed before ~now.

The solution is to not buy crap regardless if you can make it work or not.


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mschild • today at 4:16 PM

> So this only works on products that was developed before ~now.

You're under the assumption that the companies producing these give a shit about security. It'll probably increase a bit but I doubt it will be by much. If they have shipped devices that leave the doors wide open for almost any intrusion, they won't invest engineering/AI time and money to make these better than before and certainly won't review the code that the model spit out beyond a quick check if the promised base functionality still works.

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drnick1 • today at 5:04 PM

> So this only works on products that was developed before ~now.

The Home Assistant hackers are some of the most persistent reverse engineers that I have seen. Almost as much as game crackers and cheat developers.