[stratos123]

$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/

[taspeotis]

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.