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grdw
Personal blog · grdw.nlprogrammingweb
grdw is a personal blog at grdw.nl about programming and web. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a comparison for reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol. The linked posts describe a commenter's effort to reverse-engineer and write a client for an intercom, noting its nmap, Wireshark and security weaknesses.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
This reads similar to an intercom I am still in the process of trying to write a client for: https://grdw.nl/2023/01/28/my-intercom-part-1.html . Seeing nmap, wireshark, poor security. It definitely feels the same.
Comment linking /2023/01/28/my-intercom-part-1.html
on “Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol”Submitted How to copy a file between devices? (2022) as a story · 255 points
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