Reversing a eufy HomeBase 2 pushes beyond firmware forensics: desoldering the flash, burning part of it in the process, then breaking the UART lockdown with a backdoored U-Boot image — to learn how the OCEAN_XXXX management WiFi key is generated. Pure scavenger-engineer territory.

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A cautionary look at how the same short-term financial optimization that hollowed out Western manufacturing is now eroding software engineering by replacing senior mentorship and tacit knowledge with brittle automation.