Over the past couple weeks I’ve been doing agent-driven reverse engineering of peripherals that happen to be
within arm’s reach. From those devices, I’ve come away with a full plaintext command shell inside my microphone,
a webcam whose activity LED I can switch off while it records, and a key light that hands out memory writes to
anyone on the WiFi. Peripherals have proven to be an ideal target for agentic RE - they’re tiny computers
attached to my computer, with a data connection to the host and usually a firmware update mechanism, so an
agent has something to iterate against. The net outcome is better control and understanding of my machine.