I hacked my own webcam, microphone, and monitor with AI

Everything I own, owned

Over two weeks, a security researcher used Claude Opus 5 to reverse engineer five peripherals: an Insta360 Link webcam, ASUS ROG Swift monitor, Shure MV7 microphone, Elgato Cam Link 4K, and Key Light Mini. The AI agent extracted firmware, documented protocols, and built custom tools, revealing that most devices lack meaningful security. The webcam's activity LED can be disabled, the microphone exposes a plaintext command shell with trivial authentication, and the Key Light Mini's signature check can be bypassed with a single HTTP POST. Total effort: 13 hours of AI churn and 98 prompts.