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The €10 Mirror: Why Enterprise Security Looks Like a Kid’s Toy
By Javier Medina ( X / LinkedIn) TL;DR A toy projector taught the same lesson we keep seeing in serious systems. Business models create rules that need security properties; and questionable shortcuts tend to replace these properties when time, money and knowledge are scarce. In this case, media protection was a reversible single byte XOR wrapper and the NFC cartridge acted as merely like an index selector. With simple home tools, we could model the whole ecosystem in less than 1 hour. […]https://labs.itresit.es/2026/02/04/the-e10-mirror-why-enterprise-security-looks-like-a-kids-toy/