His first blog post was also mostly lifted from here:
https://community.smartthings.com/t/hack-the-amazon-dash-but...
I found that by Googling the code snippet, which the original author actually gives a shoutout for.
https://community.smartthings.com/t/hack-the-amazon-dash-but...
I found that by Googling the code snippet, which the original author actually gives a shoutout for.
[0] https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wif...
The kid is just really bad with appropriate attribution, but he does refer to the people that inspire him loosely. The issue is that he's posted code in various places without any direct reference, so anyone copying that code will attribute him, rather than the original author. Which sucks because he's literally copying large chunks of code 100%.
e.g. https://gist.github.com/theleybzon/4e721f17e5dfc642c738
is 100% similar to the source he copied it from (Benson).
https://gist.github.com/eob/a8b5632f23e75b311df2
He does refer to Benson in the article, but not the code or its repository. Anyone looking at the code would now attribute him, not Benson, the 100% original author. It's an issue but it's not out of malice or ego or anything like that in this particular case, I think he's just messing up a lot rather than trying to present other people's work as his own. (the OP's article does have hints of that, though)