> The most fascinating part of this wave of LLM reverse engineering is seeing how many weird and poor choices were lying in plain sight.

"The S in IoT stands for security" has been a joke for 20 years now.

It's always been in plain sight. There's a whole search engine dedicated to it: https://www.shodan.io/ (since 2009)

I highly recommend this talk from 14 years ago: https://youtu.be/5cWck_xcH64?is=O4zCafVz-6eXRYES