This feels just so fundamentally like a step change to me. I was reverse-engineering Nest thermostats a year ago by hand, and now I feel like a month worth of my work could be done with 22 cents and an LLM. Exciting times for reverse-engineering and hardware/software interface
But! they forgot to obfuscate the string RIGHT NEXT TO IT... "enter password", which clued the LLM into where to look for the password.
To be clear, i dont credit the LLM for "thinking" to look there. It just digested enough blogs of other people doing this.
But nonetheless, the technique is cool.
The less here is to probably obfuscate ALL strings.
This smells like a similar situation, it's not like they don't have enough horsepower for MD5.
If I knew from the start which model I would land on I probably would’ve paid for access on their API. But the nice thing with reseller platforms is that I can quickly try out different models for a slight fee added on top, and I think that’s pretty nice given that I don’t know what model is better at any given moment, and because good new models come out all the time from all the different providers.
"Also, for those that are curious: the total cost of running the Deepseek model on OpenRouter was 22 cents. Yes, $0.22. You don’t need an expensive subscription or sell your soul to Altman or Amodei."
It feels like for RE work, Chinese models are currently the only ones that actually let you do that, because the US ones want a healthy subscription plan or an government/enterprise customer.
It's disheartening if your life plan was to do this for 4 hours then never again. But if you meant to keep using this skill, today's hard-won knowledge, combined with continued use, means he'll personally be able to eyeball a similar disassembled float-conversion function in the future and have an educated guess at its purpose, which is a super power!
https://betafpv.com/collections/cameras
The price is what really surprised me. The most expensive thing there is $14. There are many similar options floating around. I assume that these are priced at a premium because they are for applications where people care about shaving 0.1g.