AI Engineer YouTube · May 29, 2026

Reverse engineering a Viking VOIP phone protocol with Claude Code — Boris Starkov, Eleven Labs

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A Viking VoIP phone sat in the ElevenLabs San Francisco office for a year. Three senior engineers and ChatGPT could not get it working. Boris from ElevenLabs cracked the undocumented protocol with Claude Code in a couple of days: brute forced all 676 possible two letter command combinations, found 80 valid ones, then s

My takeaway: A Viking VoIP phone sat in the ElevenLabs San Francisco office for a year. Three senior engineers and ChatGPT could not get it working. Boris from ElevenLabs cracked the undocumented protocol with Claude Code in a couple of days: brute forced all 676 possible two letter command combinations, found 80 valid ones, then s