Everything I own, owned
- ID
- 17388
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 24 Aug 2026, 6:41 AM
- Fetched
- 26 Aug 2026, 5:01 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 8.5
- Created
- 26 Aug 2026, 6:08 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersai_agent_usersai_ml_learners
What happened
The author used Claude Opus 5 to perform agent-driven reverse engineering on five hardware peripherals, including an Insta360 Link webcam. Over 13 hours of processing and 98 prompts, the agent found a plaintext shell in a microphone, disabled a webcam's activity LED while recording, and found WiFi memory write vulnerabilities in a key light.
Why it matters
It demonstrates a highly effective, prompt-driven workflow for using AI agents to automate complex reverse engineering tasks, yielding actionable security vulnerabilities in common hardware. Builders can adapt this approach to audit their own hardware or understand firmware without needing deep, manual reverse engineering expertise.
Discussion angle
How to structure prompts and environments to let AI agents autonomously reverse engineer and audit hardware or firmware, and the security implications of making this capability widely accessible.