> Pretty much all cheap, Chinese-made hardware of this kind has intentional or unintentional security holes waiting to be exploited.

Why single out bad Chinese coding? Bad US IoT coding has a longer history.

forestry 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s bad, and then there’s egregious.

copperx 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

All of there IoT devices will be slop coded soon, and I wonder whether that will be an improvement or not. I bet that security will be better.

	▲	shakna 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I bet that security will be better. Not doxing myself, but... Company with a known name vibecoded a dashboard with Claude. Which also hardcoded a password into the client-side of the dashboard, which I caught. I reckon security will be about the same.
	▲	Namidairo 14 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> All of there IoT devices will be slop coded soon Soon? I've already seen multiple of TP-Link's firmware engineers leave their LLM history public and indexed by search engines. It's quite obviously them as well.