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stacktrust 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)

Blink cameras have amazing battery life due to proprietary silicon, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065319

> These would be tough as they are based on a proprietary ASIC which is poorly documented even for internal developers. Ask me how I know.

Teardown thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33683122

fuzzfactor 4 months ago [–]

Yikes, that ASIC is so advanced that any product built around it will in some ways be designed for the landfill far more so than an equivalent that was generic.

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