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Developer bypasses Coway's cloud to control Airmega air purifier locally

Scott J. Goldman found that his Coway Airmega IconS air purifier downloads a security certificate over unencrypted HTTP, letting him intercept it and redirect traffic to his own Home Assistant server instead of Coway's IoCare+ cloud. He used ChatGPT to write firewall rules and another AI tool to rebuild the fan's Bluetooth setup, after Claude refused due to cybersecurity guardrails.