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What my cheap AliExpress camera sends to the cloud (and what a Reolink sends instead)

23 Cheshvan 5787

What my cheap AliExpress camera sends to the cloud (and what a Reolink sends instead)

Packet captures of a Xiongmai-based AliExpress camera and a Reolink E1 Pro: hard-coded DNS, four clouds, a plaintext cloud ID, and live-view audio relayed unencrypted. Schematics, scores and how I locked it down.

security privacy networking +5
Proximate Pseudonymizer: a small model that swaps identifying details for close substitutes

10 Cheshvan 5787

Proximate Pseudonymizer: a small model that swaps identifying details for close substitutes

A proof-of-concept Qwen3-0.6B fine-tune that rewrites text with names, places and dates swapped for close, consistent substitutes (Daniel to David, Jerusalem to Tel Aviv). Runs on CPU. Still leaks 9.3% of details, so review every output.

ai-models hugging-face fine-tuning +2