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Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
All it took was a reverse-engineered camera firmware and a custom API rewrite.
People like Georg Lukas, who reverse-engineered Samsung's SNS API to bring back a version of direct picture posting to Wi-Fi-enabled NX models, and even expand it. By reflashing the surprisingly capable board on a USB 4G dongle, Lukas is able to create a Wi-Fi hotspot with LTE uplink and run his modified version of Samsung's ( woefully insecure) service natively on the stick. It is one of those Internet blog posts in which somebody describes something incredibly arcane, requiring a dozen kinds of knowledge backed by experience, with the casualness with which one might explain how to plant seeds in soil.
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