Cybersecurity

Minut IoT exploit

Back in late 2019 I saw an ad on Facebook for a very interesting IoT device from a Swedish company local to me - Minut. I’ve been a very happy user of the four devices (named Point at the time, known as Minut M2 now) since then. This is the story of how I spent quite some time investigating what made them tick, and if I could make them tick differently. Being a few years old, this is not their latest device. However, they are still fully supported by their service.

Cybersecurity · English · IoT · Minut

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Vibe coding results

Vibe coding is the name given to just prompting an LLM to implement according to your directions. In this post I detail what my experience is after having done just that, viewed from the point of a senior Software Engineer and Cybersecurity expert.

I’ve vibe coded. Challenging one’s own convictions can sometimes be difficult, but necessary. I’ve used generative AI sporadically for some tasks for a while, and I haven’t been all that impressed. However, people I’ve known for many years and whose competence is not in question kept telling me how extremely productive they were with modern developer models - able to churn out fully working projects in very little time.

AI · Coding · Cybersecurity · LLM

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