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by taspeotis 73 days ago
> don't have the resources to buy 20000$ of tokens to go debug them

$20,000 - how many developers do these hardware companies have that they need to spend that much? Claude Team Premium is US$125/mo for a seat and even cheaper if you buy annually...
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stratos123 73 days ago
$20000 is what the Antropic report says they spent on scanning OpenBSD [1].

[1] "Across a thousand runs through our scaffold, the total cost was under $20,000 and found several dozen more findings.", https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

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taspeotis 71 days ago
That's for OpenBSD, typical IoT firmware is tiny by comparison: a few init.rc scripts, some cron jobs, a php-cgi web UI, and glue code with hardcoded API keys. The total lines of code are orders of magnitude smaller, so the audit surface and expected cost are too.
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yencabulator 72 days ago
Running a "too advanced" harness against a Claude Code subscription gets your organization banned, even if it's a shell wrapper over `claude -p`. You probably can't reproduce this research with a fixed-price subscription.
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