The interesting thought to me is not (at all) that "my agent may pick the hackable one", but rather that LLMs will make it a lot easier to reverse-engineer stuff and actually own our devices.

> Then M-Vave did something uncommon for a hardware company. In October it published its own firmware as open source under GPLv3

They did it after the alternative firmwares were out of their control. What I take from that is that there is a big need to reverse engineer firmwares, because by defaults companies really don't want to open source them.

Ironic how the company released it as GPLv3. Like "we really wanted to keep it proprietary, but now that we feel like we should open source it, we really wouldn't want for a competitor to change it and keep their changes proprietary".