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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by ghosty141 »

phh wrote: post #225

I definitely love this article and this spirit. I've accumulated a lot of crap/cheap IoT, I'll probably owning them! Two things: - to rain on the parade, the European RED directive makes secure upgrades mandatory for anything connected to the internet (I suspect that's why Elgato Key Light Mini has signed firmwares). So OEMs are now required to prevent you from doing that. (EN18031-1). It even requires that network c…

The CRA that will be active starting december 2027 will also do similar things like RED. Cant ship with fixed static credentials anymore or manufacturer backdoors (unless the user activates them)

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by cromka »

What I wish is that we started reverse-engineering audio receivers, many of which run regular Linux. Manufacturers tend to release the new models with hardly any hardware changes, sometimes only software updates. To be able to backport an Airplay2 to an older, fully functional receiver would be amazing.

I'd also love for someone to RE a Google Home or Alexa to be usable with custom models and Esp home/Home Assistant.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

At this point manufacturers should just open-source their firmwares as there's no barrier for entry to reverse engineer it. They will instead gain from army of end-users willing to put their time and tokens into fixing their bugs for free.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by vlyan »

jfsebastian wrote: post #218
hypfer wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like being able to have all this access, of course, but I'm not sure if "we" all truly have the character to be good stewards of this. Or rather I am sure that we do not. OTOH, maybe it needs events like these to build character. It just will suck for whoever turns out to be the collateral.

That's the downside of the medal, but let's face it. A tool is a tool. You can forge helpful stuff or weapons, but this is not the fault of the tool itself. So we're currently at the stage where we were on the internet 30 years ago. Let's see where this leads too.

(in response to the other comment here, whose author forgot to turn off VPN and got automatically flagged despite his account being 10 years old, because @dang would rather hang a hundred innocent men than let a guilty get away.)

do you ponder "unpleasant moral stuff" every time you chop vegetables?

>As an anchor, knives or sharp objects were used in about 97,000 homicides globally in 2017, equivalent to roughly 266 deaths per day.

>There is no reliable single global count, so the best concise answer is about 10,000 people injured by stabbing each day worldwide, not counting deaths separately.

I can guarantee you that 95% of those are done with the humble kitchen knife.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by a_bonobo »

I've spent SO MUCH TIME in my life trying to get laboratory machinery, usually only ten of them in the world, to spit out their data nicely. They have UIs but usually god-awful, and all data is hidden away somewhere (they're written by biologists, for biologists). I wish I could go void some warranties....

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by lrvick »

sebmellen wrote: post #141
lrvick wrote: post #139

> I can’t help but think about what an AI-equipped automatically-reverse-engineering worm could do today. Everyone should read Daemon and Freedom, like right now.

This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2

That is the second book, but yes. Read Daemon first.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by trencedamp »

This is the first exciting thing I've seen done with LLMs in quite some time. Turning on or off an LED doesn't seem world shattering, but the idea that we might be able to unlock or add functionality to hardware we own makes me giddy
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