My Keynote at SeaGL and LLM-Gen-AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering

The post notes a growing number of reports of people gaining access to their own locked-down devices, nearly all of which mention LLM-gen-AI, and cites the Zyxel XS1930 network switch being upgraded to OpenWrt via its web UI, where LLM-gen-AI was used only to understand the stock firmware's binary image format. It also references other reverse engineering efforts covered in the author's SeaGL keynote (a guitar amp, the Meta Quest bootloader, music gear, and the Nintendo Switch 2) and quotes Jason Koebler's warning that poorly coded, insecure software will end up on critical hardware. SFC says it has reached out to these projects to offer help and connections with member projects, and encourages companies to intentionally make their devices open to software modifications.