Hackathon trick: intercepting Amazon Dash Button calls as free IoT code triggers
nptacek · x · 2026-11-03
Amazon's pilot program gave away Dash Buttons nearly free. At a hackathon, participants intercepted and canceled the buttons' network calls, turning them into free IoT buttons to trigger arbitrary code — a classic trick of redirecting a device's network calls to your own logic.
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