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OP here. I literally just got released from 13 hours in a Swiss holding cell because this prototype looked like a bomb to the WEF police.

To get released, I had to walk a forensic expert ('Chris') through this codebase line-by-line. He didn't care about the pitch; he audited the Rust borrow checker logs, the specific hardware interrupts, and the encryption implementation to prove it wasn't a trigger mechanism.

It was the most aggressive code audit of my life. Happy to answer questions about the stack, the 'vibe coding' workflow I used to build it, or the Swiss prison lasagna."

So it wasn't really the firmware but the hardware that they thought looked suspicious and the fact that you placed a black box in a hotel restaurant and walked away. Especially suspicious since WEF guests were staying there.

Thread for those who don't have an account: https://xcancel.com/s_heyneman/status/2014519007244656652

If anything, the Swiss authorities should be commended for their effective and proportionate response.