You can get normal LED bulbs for $30 or less here. It's just these fancy RGB Color-changing bulbs that are expensive.

But the software, HDL, and schematic is open. Don't forget about those.

From what I saw while poking around the system, it looks like telnet is just a leftover from development that should have been removed. If it really were malicious, I would expect it to be more well hidden.

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It didn't break anything. It looks like the telnet is just a leftover from development.

We bought a 24 channel q-see brand DVR. When it went to boot up, during disk initialization, it specifically mentioned '/dev/sda' and such, so I knew it ran some embedded Linux. I decided to check it out via nmap to see if there was anything interesting running. Port 23 was open. I telnet-ed into the damn thing and was able to log into root with no password. Needless to say, that was fixed.

I don't know where all of this Facebook employment stuff came from but the option of selling out to them has sure as hell not been put on the table.