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Michael Ossmann(@mossmann@mastodon.social) from Great Scott Gadgets joins us to chat about HackRF Pro, Cynthion, and more! Michael previously joined us on Episode 57.Here's a list of things we talked about:

• HackRF Pro Software Defined Radio
• Cynthion
• Beagle480 USB Analyzer
• Reverse-engineering VNA ECal Interface with Cynthion
• GreatFET One
• Facedancer
• Smoocon Presentation - Building and Hacking USB with FPGA
• Packetry
• Rust
• Embassy.dev - Rust embedded framework
• RTT
• Episode 64 with Nika/ic3qu33n on MS-DOS Malware
• Framed.wtf
• Geoguessr
• Rainbolt
• ESPN8 - The Ocho
• Patti Labelle at the christmas tree lighting ceremony
• Italian Research Paper on HackRF for Time Transfer Applications
• Receiving WWVB with HackRF Pro
• Longitude Book
• A Brief History of Timekeeping book
• Taskmaster TV Show
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/07/17/quantum-computers-still-cant-factor-as-well-as-an-abacus/1438153
• Everdell Board Game
• Wingspan Board Game
• Terraforming Mars Board Game
• Ark Nova Board Game
• Pandemic Board Game
• Pandemic Legacy Season 1
• Hackaday Supercon Talk - Simple RF Circuit Design
• TI Application Note on Edge Rate Accelerators
• Saleae Logic MSO
• SDR with HackRF Training Series Videos
• EMFCamp

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Jen and Alvaro catch up on 2025. Here are some links to the things we talked about:

• Wing - Dopamine
• Enshittification
• California Right to Repair
• RECESSIM
• 404 Media
• iFixit Repair App
• iPhone Electrically Released Adhesive
• Anna's Archive Scraped 300TB from Spotify
• Benn Jordan Streaming Royalties Video
• Jon GainSec Gaines: https://gainsec.com
• Flock videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

• Benn Jordan "I Saved a PNG Image to a Bird"

• 404 Media Flock Article
• Debugging Rules Book
• Julia Evan's Pocket Guide to Debugging
• Dungeon Crawler Carl
• Molly White
• https://soundbooththeater.com/
• Dennis E. Taylor's thoughts on Audible exclusives
• https://thestorygraph.com/
• Letterboxd
• LaurieWired Ghidra MCP Video (github repo)
• Alvaro's J-Link Post
• https://www.shodan.io/

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An Interview With Dan Walters Dan Walters/Bytetinker joins us after a long email chain to find a time. You’ll understand why it was so hard in the interview. Jen met Dan at cyphercon.com where he runs an ISP hacking village/ward. We covered a lot of stuff at various levels of the OSI stack up. Here’s just a short list of terms that came up:

• DOCSIS
• Quadrature_amplitude_modulation
• Some of the exploits we covered were part of Cable Haunt.

While Dan for good reason did not provide explicit sites to get started with, you may have luck with archive.org

Want to try this for yourself but still waiting for your federal funding to come in? cyphercon.com 2026 is happening and you can do this much more cheaply. It’s happening April 1 & 2.

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We talked to Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and how it became the DeskThing.

You can find Nathan on his personal site and on LinkedIn. You can get more info on DeskThing in various places. There’s a nice timeline of events on the DeskThing website, the DeskThing YouTube channel, subreddit, and Discord.

Links to some other things we talked about:

• Zadig
• https://tailwindcss.com/
• https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• https://react.dev/

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Jen and Alvaro talked to Noah Holland & Joshua Stiebel about electronic lock reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

• https://cyphercon.com/
• https://www.secretcon.com/
• MTU Red Team
• https://unsaflok.com/
• Unsaflock DEFCON Talk
• https://www.dormakaba.com
• https://proxmark.com/
• Iceman Fork - https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3
• https://nmap.org/
• https://flipperzero.one/
• https://lab401.com/products/chameleon-ultra

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Jen and Alvaro were guests on the Reverse Engineering Plus Plus Podcast. Check them out at REPP.show!

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Here are some of the things we talked about:

• https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-around-objects/overview/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field_camera
• Jiska’s inactivity reboot research
• 404 Media Article about inactivity reboot
• Joe Grand’s YouTube
• Ken Shiriff - https://www.righto.com/
• John McMaster - https://siliconpr0n.org/
• Piotr Esden-Tempski https://1bitsquared.com/
• Ferrite for iOS
• Azeria - Arm book - https://azeria-labs.com/ https://x.com/fox0x01 https://leg-assembly.com/
• Marcan Asahi linux
• Joe Fitz
• Foone
• Bunnie Huang - Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
• Kill decision book by Daniel Suarez
• Maddie Stone
• Malware Unicorn
• POSEE

Show stats as of December 1 2024:

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Thomas Roth (aka Stacksmashing) joined us again to chat about all the new projects he’s been working on. We talked about iPhone and Macbook reversing, HexTree.io, the RP2350 Hacking Challenge, and more!

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• Getting JTAG on the iPhone 15 (video)
• https://t8012.dev/
• 37C3 - Apple's iPhone 15: Under the C
• Marc Zyngier’s Central Scrutinizer
• Macvdmtool
• Asahi Linux
• AsahiLinux USB-PD Docs
• Tamarin-C iPhone/Mac bus explorer
• chipSHOUTER and PicoEMP
• ACE up the Sleeve: Hacking into Apple’s New USB-C Controller
• Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption
• Cold Boot Attack
• T8012 Team Ace Controller Secrets
• Embedded Systems Village
• Faultier at 1bitsquared US and EU
• Crowbar (circuit)
• Toorcamp 2024 Keynote Video
• The Hardware Hacking Handbook
• BlackMagic Probe
• Orbcode

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We talked to Jesse Michael (@jessemichael) and Mickey Shkatov(@hackingthings) about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more!

Here’s a list of some of the things we talked about:

• Eclypsium
• Driving Down the Rabbit Hole (DEFCON 25 talk about Nissan Leaf exploit)
• Intel WiGig
• BIOS
• Port 0x80
• UEFI
• https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 for UEFI
• DediProg SF100(And SF600)
• Chip Clips
• chipsec
• UEFITool
• BusPirate
• Tigard
• QEMU
• VMWare Workstation
• UEFI exploitation for the masses (DEFCON 26 presentation)
• One Bootloader to Load Them All (DEFCON 30 presentation)
• BIOS Dehumidifier Function
• Remotely Attacking System Firmware (BlackHat 2018)
• Intel System Studio 2020
• Intel DCI
• USB A/A cable for DCI Debugging
• Damn Vulnerable UEFI (Look out for BlackHat talk)
• UEFI DOOM
• Flappy Bird in UEFI
• UEFI Tetris
• Self-Replicating UEFI App (In 420 bytes!)
• System Management Interrupt
• Unknown Cheats Forum
• System Management Mode
• Edk-devel mailing list
• Xenoh Kovah’s UEFI training videos
• efiSeek for ghidra
• efiXplorer for IDA
• Binary Ninja
• Intel Management Engine
• me_cleaner
• ME analyzer (By platomav)
• CPUMicrocodes (By platomav)
• Coreboot
• 010 Hex Editor
• Stardock Fences (For Icon management)
• Notepad++
• The Newlywed Game
• Streamdeck
• Toorcamp

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Ian from DangerousPrototypes (@DangerousProto) joined us to chat about the new BusPirate 5, DirtyPCB’s, and more!

Check out this BusPirate 5 post for pictures of many things we mentioned on the show.

• Ian’s Halloween onion rings (And other instructables)
• BusPirate
• Taobao
• Ian’s Maker Faire 2012 Video
• Seedstudio
• BusBlaster
• Haxelerator
• Bunnie’s “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen”
• Naomi Wu’s updated version of the guide
• OSHPark
• DirtyPCBs
• DirtySLA
• DirtyAcryllics
• DirtyCables
• Arduboy
• Canned Cheese (Alvaro’s recommendation)
• Expressway to Pleasure
• Hacker Camp Shenzhen
• PCBite
• PIZZAbite
• Sigrok
• Saleae
• Prusa MINI
• Flylin Consulting

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We talked to Laurie Wired (X/Twitter, YouTube, Github) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent series on Reverse Engineering 101 as well as her many Conference Talks.

Here are links to some other topics we covered:

• Serial Experiments Lain
• EIEIO instruction
• Java Native Interface (JNI)
• .ipa file
• Virustotal
• MalwareBazaar
• RetroBar for Windows
• https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/
• Neon White game
• vx underground trivia
• Operation Triangulation and Video Presentation “What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”
• Dalvik Executable Format (.dex)
• UPX packer
• Apk file
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• XcodeGhost
• https://frida.re/
• https://github.com/Ch0pin/medusa

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Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant. Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We’ll try to get back on track this year :)

ImHex - Hex editor Jacob mentioned.

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Reverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis.

James (https://www.baldengineer.com/) joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering.

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• Element 14 Presents Youtube
• Hackster.io News
• MegaIIe Video
• Apple II Versions
• Logo (Programming Language)
• 7400 Series Logic
• PLCC Package
• The MiSTer Project
• Digilent Digital Discovery
• Schmitt Trigger
• Analog Discovery 2
• ElectroBOOM
• KiCad
• JLCPCB
• RP2040
• Checkmate Retro Display
• Unitiblue
• HP/Agilent/Keysight 17600
• Silicon Valley Maps
• James’ HDDG Capacitor Talk (video)
• HALT Testing

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No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀
NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/infos/

• Episode 03 - Barbies and Keyboards
• Barbie Liberation Organization
• Small Soldiers Movie
• Toys Movie
• Jumpin’ Jack Flash
• Rust - I Hear People Talk About It (shirt)
• OpenSauce
• Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
• Alvaro’s USB Cable Tester
• Book Recommendations
• ARM Assembly and Reverse Engineering
• Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
• Fatal System Error
• Murdoch’s Pirates

• Cult of the Dead Cow

• Past guest David teaching the first lady how to solder!

• RECESSIM - Reverse Engineering News on YouTube
• Excellent CAN Injection Write-up (And Great interview with Ken on The Amp Hour)
• Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
• WebOS
• Alvaro’s IR Volume Controller
• DJI Mic

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering!

You can find Nika in the following places:

• https://ic3qu33n.fyi/
• https://github.com/nikaroxanne
• https://twitter.com/nikaroxanne
• https://infosec.exchange/@ic3qu33n

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• Leviathan Security Group
• Hardware Happy Hour (3H) San Francisco
• BSidesSF Presentation - MTV Reboot — my Super Sweet 16-bit malware.
• Mikko Hypponen
• Darknet Diaries - Mikko
• Internet Archive Malware Museum
• R2
• IDA
• Rizin/Cutter (Listen to Episode 45 for more info!)
• Masm32
• vx-underground github
• nasm
• QEMU
• FreeDOS
• bochs emulator
• Programming Boot Sector Games by Oscar Toledo
• VMware
• Interview with Spanska (virus author)
• Dark Angel’s Phunky Virus Writing Guide
• Tequila virus
• Bitsavers.org
• https://ic3qu33n.fyi/ (blog posts!)
• TSRs
• Screen Mode 13h
• Demoscene
• LayerOne
• Creeper virus
• Elk Cloner
• MTVRE
• Electronics Flea Market
• Ken Shirriff
• ATT 26A
• RECON 2023
• https://ben.the-collective.net/
• https://twitter.com/suidroot

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth (@ghidraninja on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find Thomas on his stacksmashing.net, YouTube, and @stacksmashing@infosec.exchange. Here are some links to the topics we covered:

• stacksmashing youtube channel
• Linux on iPod
• Airtag fault injection twitter thread
• Bypassing code protection on NRF52
• Raspberry pi pico PIO
• Joe Grand wallet glitch video
• Wallet.fail
• Lennert’s Starlink terminal glitching DEFCON talk
• DEF CON 29 - Thomas Roth - Hacking the Apple AirTags
• How the Apple AirTags were hacked
• Hardwear.io NL 2021: Over The Air-Tag: Shenanigans With A Keyfinder by Jiska , Fabian And Thomas
• Kanzi Cable
• Bonobo Cable
• MFi
• IDBus and Lightning
• The Secrets of Apple Lightning - Part 1 (Video)
• The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking (DEF CON 30 Presentation)
• DCSD cable (lightning uart)
• Frida
• Saleae
• Openocd
• Tamarin Firmware Repo
• USB Cable Tester
• Picoprobe rpi2040 swd adapter
• Mario Kart AI training video
• Tetris movie
• Multiplayer tetris
• Webusb
• Online Multiplayer on the Game Boy (video)
• Gameshark
• Ghidra
• ChipSHOUTER-PicoEMP
• F$#k powerpoint there’s no power in the point

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David from Cyber City Circuits (@MakeAugusta) joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more!

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• HackerBoxes
• KiCad
• GIMP
• Inkscape
• SVG2Shenzen
• TwinkleTwinkie on Twitter and Mastodon
• 83Redux Twitter Thread (TI-83 RE project)
• Sensor Watch on CrowdSupply
• arturo182 on Twitter and Mastodon
• http://datamath.org/
• https://tiplanet.org/
• DigiHack Thread (Digimon Reversing Project)
• Joe Grand’s pizza finder
• Joe's PCB Deconstruction Techniques YouTube Playlist
• electronicstwitter.com

• newprop on Twitter

• ChatGPT

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Note: We have 5 year anniversary T-Shirts available for sale. Order is open until Nov 28.

We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan (github) about BLE reverse engineering, relay attacks, and more!

• Libusb
• FTDI D2XX
• Motorola Mobility
• NCC Group
• Mike Ryan
• Ubertooth
• Mike’s Paper on BLE Security
• TI BLE sniffer
• Nordic BLE nRF sniffer
  https://www.ellisys.com/products/bex400/
• Time-of-flight
• 802.15z
• Relay attack
• Sniffle Presentation at Hardwear.io 2019 and blog post
• Sniffle Git Repo
• https://fortune.com/2022/05/17/tesla-hacker-shows-how-to-unlock-start-and-drive-off-with-car/
• nOBEX

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Jen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years!

Don’t forget to get past guest @TubeTimeUS’s new book Open Circuits over at https://nostarch.com/open-circuits. You can use promo code UNNAMEDRE25 to get 25% off.

Alvaro is going to be in a panel about Debugging Embedded Devices in Production on August 25th run by the awesome folks at Memfault.

Here are some links to things we mentioned:

• Toorcamp
• Ran into past guests:
• • Joe Grand
  • Jared Boon
  • Rick Altherr
• https://hardwear.io/
• One of Alvaro’s side projects: SWD over USB-C
• Behind the Rind Podcast
• Ferrite Recording Studio (iPad)
• Audacity
• Zencastr
• xArm 6 Robot
• https://www.jencostillo.com/
• Buy Jen’s NFT
• https://makezine.com/
• Kitty Yeung
• Jen’s Supercon Talk
• Hackaday Supercon
• Asahi Linux (and 2022 Progress Report)
• Jeri’s Episode
• Micah’s Episode
• Ken Shirfiff's Episode
• It’s Not Magic
• Evil Mad Scientist Labs
• Windell’s interview about the book on Embedded.fm

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Mike Ryan (bluetooth.expert) joins us once again to talk SDR’s, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at ice9.us.

Here are some links to things we talked about:

• Episode with Jiska
• Episode with Michael Ossmann
• Toorcon
• Toorcon 13 Badge
• Ice9 Consulting
• Web of Make Believe on Netflix
• Caltrain
• MTVRE
• Hacking Electric Skateboards Video @ DEFCON23
• Inspectrum
• Rapid Radio Reversing Talk by Michael Ossmann
• NRF24
• Ubertooth
• CC2400
• Yardstick One
• Waterfall display/plot
• OOK
• FSK
• URH
• Baudline
• GNU Radio Companion
• Fcc.io
• Alvaro’s Quadcopter Reversing (github)
• SMC Connector
• RF Attenuator
• RF Splitter
• Natalie’s webRTC talk where the fuzzer “Fred” is mentioned
• WirelessUSB
• BLE Coded PHY
• HOGP (HID over GATT Profile)
• You Can Lose in So Many Colors
• HackRF
• BladeRF
• USRP
• Polyphase channelizer
• Wireshark
• Wireshark’s extcap
• Kismet
• Dragorn
• Other Mike Ryans:
• • Michael W. Ryan - Murderer
  • Dr. Michael J. Ryan - Epidemiologist
  • Dr. Michael J. Ryan - Paleontologist

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Special thanks to Andrea of Hardwear.io team for inviting us. We learned a ton and meet a bunch of new people while (as of this writing) stayed COVID-free.

Interviews in order:

• Eric Schlaepfer - author of the new book with co-author Windell Oskay (of “Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories” fame ) “Open Circuits” on No Starch press. Notes there are PREORDER discounts.
• Jacob Creedon: Just before his talk… at the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup.
• Spencer Moss from Google (I’m sure you can google the company) security engineer
• Ken from Somerset Recon
• Will McGuiness as the workshop assistant for John McMaster’s microprobing workshop.
• Mike Ryan: Bluetooth expert from Ice 9 Consulting and previous guest. As promised he would be on this next show… but the part2 of our RF tools with him will be the next episode.

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Michael Ossmann (@michaelossmann) from Great Scott Gadgets joined us to chat all things SDR, Open Source Hardware, education, and more!

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• HackRF One
• Ubertooth One
• GreatFET One
• A Mathematician's Lament
• WEP
• Wep dead again article
• APCO P25
• Ettus USRP
• NTLMv1
• Dominic Spill
• GNU Radio
• Michael’s KiCon Talk
• gr-bluetooth
• Michael’s awesome video series on SDR
• http://www.nsaplayset.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
• IMSI Catcher
• DEF CON 22 - Michael Ossmann - The NSA Playset: RF Retroreflectors
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
• Cyberspies book
• Samy Kamkar (Featured in Episode 41!)
• Rolljam
• Yardstick One
• https://github.com/nonamecoder/CVE-2022-27254
• https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tesla-charging-ports-opened-with-hackrf-replay-attack/
• How To Write Pop Horn Parts

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Oleg Kutkov (@olegkutkov) joined us from Kyiv to chat about Starlink reverse engineering, astrophysics, and more! Check out his awesome website for some excellent write ups on various topics.

Here are some links to the topics we covered:

• Back To The Future
• SpaceX
• Starlink
• Phased array antenna
• Arecibo observatory
• Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
• Oleg's Allsky Camera Writeup
• Medical Research that Referenced Oleg's Writeup
• NASA's Spooky Space Sounds
• NOAA GOES Satellites
• https://usradioguy.com/goes-satellite-imagery-reception/
• RTL-SDR
• HackRF
• ADS-B
• HackRF supercluster
• DBV-S
• DBV-S2
• Phase Noise
• Starlink Patents
• Starlink Beacons
• Doppler shift
• NORAD’s Celestrak
• Low Noise Block (LNB)
• Starlink Dishy
• SpaceX's starlink-wifi github
• Oleg's Tesla LTE Modem Replacement
• Devicetree
• Boxee
• Iridium Reversing Episode
• Eccentric Orbits Book
• Saleae
• IDA Pro

Used the following NASA recordings in the episode:

• https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sun-sonification
• https://soundcloud.com/nasa/jupiter-sounds-2001
• https://soundcloud.com/nasa/juno-crossing-jupiters-bow-shock

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Laura Abbott (website, @openlabbott) from Oxide.computer joins us to chat about reverse engineering the LPC55S69, linux kernel development, and more!

Some of the topics we covered:

• Hubris Operating System
• Episode with Rick Altherr
• Laura’s Coworker Cliff’s Website
• Ghidra
• objdump
• SVD Loader for Ghidra
• Log4j ghidra
• DEF CON 29 - Breaking TrustZone M: Privilege Escalation on LPC55S69
• Arm TrustZone-M
• TrustedFirmwareM project
• Oxide’s ROM patch POC
• Code Golfing
• Arm assembly manual
• CVE-2021-31532
• PhD Thesis on Linux Kernel community
• Video about collaboration in kernel mailing lists
• Episode about Containers
• Moving the Kernel to Modern C
• QEMU

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Willem Melching(@PD0WM) joins us to chat about reverse engineering cars!

We discovered him through his excellent blog. Willem is the head of openpilot at comma.ai. They are hiring!

Here are links to some of the topics we discussed:

• LEGO Mindstorms
• PICBasic
• PIC Microcontroller
• ARM Mbed
• VHDL
• CTF
• Comma.ai
• CAN Bus
• Automotive ethernet
• CAN FD
• FlexRay
• DBC Files
• Opendbc
• The Car Hackers Handbook
• Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU Series - https://blopart1/
• Adventures with Flexray: performing a man-in-the-middle attack (Audi Q8 Hacking)
• Automotive Right to Repair
• Toyota Tech Info (for example)
• Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS)
• Comma.ai's Panda USB->CAN Tool (And Github Project)
• https://blog.willemmelching.nl/carhacking/2022/01/02/vw-part1/
• V850 Processor
• Binwalk
• XOR Cypher
• Airbus’ cpu_rec
• Ghidra
• Ghidra SLEIGH
• ELF File
• CAN Calibration Protocol
• Openpilot
• Levels of Driving Automation
• Consumer Reports - Active Driving Assistance Systems
• Tesla Rolling Stop Recall
• GlScopeClient (Hackaday Article)
• GNURadio

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Hash (@bitbangingbytes) about reverse engineering smart power meters! Check out Hash’s RECESSIM community as well as their Discord! Hash is also on TikTok @bitbangbytes.

Here are some links:

• Remoticon presentation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
• Night rider lights
• Kinect reversing challenge
• ROS
• https://www.engadget.com/2010-11-29-neato-xv-11-robot-vacuum-gets-its-very-own-open-source-lidar-hac.html
• Tamper evident presentation by past guest Datagram!
• Bunnie Huang
• Hacking the Xbox (Available as a free PDF!)
• The Hardware Hacking Handbook by past guest Colin O'Flynn and Jasper van
• Dallas Hackers Association
• Geographical routing protocol
• GNU Radio
• Landis+Gyr Revelo
• California Blackouts + Enron
• Yardstick one
• HackRF One
• USRP B200
• URH (Universal Radio Hacker)
• Baudline
• Inspectrum
• Saleae Logic Analyzers
• Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer
• Travis Goodspeed
• Chris Gerlinsky (Past guest on episode 22!)
• Chris Tarnovsky
• xv11hacking.wikispaces.com (Archive.org)
• Precursor on CrowdSupply

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In this episode, we chat with @TubeTimeUS about reverse engineering sound cards, how the MOnSter 6502 came to be, the Snappy Video Snapshot, ethics in engineering, troubleshooting techniques, and much more!

Here’s a detailed list to many of the things we talked about:

• Eric's Website (TubeTime.us)
• MoNSter 6502
• PCB Reverse Engineering - Hackaday Supercon Presentation
• Cloning a Sound Card - Hardware.io Presentation
• Fermi Estimation
• Bunny Huang
• Bill Mensch
• NMOS logic
• I2C
• Visual6502 project
• Windell and Lenore from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• Snappy Video Snapshot
• Saleae
• Excess Solutions in San Jose
• Electronics flea market
• Fry’s Electronics
• Winamp
• 555 timer kit
• 741 timer kit
• FIB
• Maker Faire
• Power line thread
• San Bruno gas explosion
• Dieselgate
• Technology adoption curve
• California public utilities commission
• Regulatory Capture
• This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
• Responsible disclosure
• Command and Control Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
• X-Unit
• Logic analyzer capture modes
• Ghidra
• IDA
• Radare (See Episode 45 for more details!)
• Cutter
• Hertha Ayrton
• Herta’s famous paper about the Arc Lamp and Negative Resistance

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Our guest, Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) is a security researcher at University of Darmstadt (why, yes you can specialize in Security here) and focuses on reverse engineering wireless things. She is a speaker at this year’s Hardwear.io. We did a deep dive on ROM patches on Broadcom chips. You'll want to listen to this episode if you are thinking about using iOS devices for your reversing.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/frankenstein (Jan Ruge)

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/internalblue (Dennis Mantz) - not be confused for eternal blue.

Nexmon --- Nexus monitor wifi https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/polypyus (Jan Friebertshäuser)

Thumbs up - ARM function identification ​​https://karta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Thumbs%20Up.html

Checkra1n - bootloader to jailbreak on iOS. https://checkra.in/

ToothPicker (Dennis Heinze, aka Dennis #2*) https://github.com/seemoo-lab/toothpicker

fpicker - Another/2 Dennis (Dennis Heinze) https://github.com/ttdennis/fpicker

Xnuspy https://github.com/jsherman212/xnuspy

Frida objection https://github.com/sensepost/objection

“funniest fuzzer ever wrote” (ComCenter but this has the parsing guts)

Obligatory video of AirTechno on AirTag.

AirGuard - android air tag app. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/airguard

• Sorry Dennis. You were just the second Dennis in this interview. Certainly this doesn’t reflect upon you as a person or a professional.

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In our 50th episode, Jen and Alvaro chat about the podcast and a bunch of other random things.

• Alvaro’s book recommendation: https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/
• AfterShokz Bone Conducting Headphones
• Hackaday Podcast
• Jiska(@naehrdine) and @ghidraninja(aka stacksmashing) have been hosting RE chats on twitter.
• Darknet Diaries Podcast
• Asahi Linux Progress Report (by @marcan42)
• Smart Meter Hacking(DEFCON 2021) by @bitbangingbytes from RECESSIM
• • Article related to the 2021 Texas snowstorm
• Alvaro was a guest on Hackster Cafe
• Jens teardown of a covid test.

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This episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security researcher and reverse engineer, James Chambers. James discusses various projects including ones that aren’t video game based.

James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so you don’t have to waste time web searching. Plus some of them include past guests so check them out.

Logitech keyboards:

• https://youtu.be/00A36VABIA4
• https://github.com/mame82/misc/blob/master/logitech_vuln_summary.md
• https://github.com/mame82/UnifyingVulnsDisclosureRepo

Amiibo hacking stuff:

• https://github.com/socram8888/amiitool
• https://jamchamb.net/projects/amiimikyu
• Proxmark: https://proxmark.com/

Animal crossing letter system thread that changed how Jen wrote letters in ACNH.

Console tools:

• Dolphin emulator https://dolphin-emu.org/
• devkitPro: https://github.com/devkitPro
• Smash Bros mod loaded through memory card
• Loading custom ROMs & exploiting NES emulator in Animal Crossing

Console hacking stuff:

• Wii "twiizers" attack
• PS3 hacking
• Breaking the 3DS:
• Switch BootROM vulnerability
• Reversing the N64 CIC
• Hacking the GameBoy Cartridge Protection
• https://fail0verflow.com/blog/

Jen is currently crushing on PCBite probes.

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Mark Manning joined us to talk about containers!

• Linux Namespaces
• chroot
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes
• Hypervisor
• Hyper-v
• gvisor
• containerd
• runc
• podman
• Dockerfile
• Docker secrets
• Jessie Frazelle (Check out her blog too!)
• seccomp
• SELinux
• tar
• Whaler
• Docker Hub
• Mark’s ‘brick’ image. (Don’t run it!)
• K3s
• memenetes
• HomeAssistant
• Tamagotchi Cluster
• Heroku
• Tesla Kubernetes Cryptomining
• Interlock Rochester
• Pumping Station: One
• HacDC
• NYC Resistor
• tl;dr sec

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Jen and Alvaro chat about what they’ve been up to and a few interesting RE related reads.

Alvaro was a guest in the embedded.fm podcast recently.

Jen’s spray paint/stencil project

• AirTags
• • Past guest Colin O'Flynn's teardown and hardware RE (Colin was on Episode 38)
  • ghidraninja's Airtag FW RE Thread
  • ghidraninja's AirTag RE Video
  • Arbitrary data transmission via Apple's Find My network
  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02282.pdf
  • nRF52 Debug Resurrection (APPROTECT Bypass)
  • https://limitedresults.com/2021/03/the-pocketglitcher/
• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
• Phasmophobia Game
• Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit
• Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
• Asmita was on Episode 42
• Past guest Dmitry has been busy!
• • Hacking eInk Price Tags
  • Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller
• Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69
• https://asahilinux.org/ - Apple M1 processor RE
• Jen’s Supercon Talk

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Cam Hackett and Lucien Brulé from Ramagine.com joined us to talk about their process of talking to a lot of security researchers and reverse engineers to develop a NSF report (why yes we are trying to find/get our hands on it) and how they used what they found to create their RE sharing tool. We tackle the world of RE from a different perspective which includes the importance of business development and what is market research.

One of the largest takeaways they found was a 3.5 Million job gap where RE skills are needed that is relatively hidden.

Xkcd standards

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Florian Märkl (metallic.software) and Itay Cohen (megabeets.net) about the open source reverse engineering tools Rizin and Cutter.

Florian and Itay are part of the core development team for Rizin and Cutter, which forked from radare2 in December of 2020. To learn more about the project, check out the Rizin FAQ. For a quick getting started guide, check out the Rizin Book.

Florian also recommends watching Arnau’s talks on beginner r2/Rizin concepts here:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317dNavABKo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARH1S8ygDnk

You can chat with the Rizin/Cutter community on their mattermost chat.

Here are links to some of the other topics we discussed:

• IDA Pro
• Unity game engine
• strings
• objdump
• Ghidra
• gdb
• ASLR
• Chiaki
• PS Remote Play
• Stadia
• Frida
• Wireshark
• Rizin supported OS’s, Architectures, etc
• RISC-V
• Contributor Covenant
• Meson Build System
• The Rizin Book

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Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out Glasgow on Crowd Supply! Piotr has previously joined us on episodes 13 and 17.

Here are some links to the topics we discussed:

• Quad 4C Pick-and-place
• Neoden Pick-and-place
• Unexpected Maker’s Pick-and-play Playlist
• Blacmagic Probe
• floss-jtag
• OpenOCD
• ARM Debug Interface v5
• GDB
• JLink
• Orbuculum
• cJTAG
• RISC-V
• iCEBreaker FPGA
• Claire Xen Wolf
• icestation-32
• buspirate
• Glasgow
• nmigen
• whitequark
• marcan
• awygle
• Yosys
• GlasgowEmbedded on Github
• Open Tool Forge
• WebAssembly
• https://www.twitch.tv/dx_mon/videos
• https://www.twitch.tv/attiegrande/videos
• https://www.twitch.tv/esden
• Złej baletnicy przeszkadza rąbek u spódnicy.
• 1bitsquared Discord

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Our guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a H8 family processor by Renasas. Read his detailed paper for more info. As we chatted about his previous projects (see episode 2), we discovered he has influenced others. We spend a lot of time chatting about different processor architectures and key choices in older ones (Really just 2, 8051 and 6502).

He is officially our first repeat guest. See episode 2 to remember our previous chat.

Dmitry mentioned looking at the Sparkfun Prototype HARP.

Open Source FPGA and related people like Tim Ansell.

Hack A Day’s “Goodbye 2020!” Contest is running until the end of the year.

Bonus features of this episode: One of the hosts stressed the boundaries of the recording platform. Find out who!

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Asmita Jha from Payatu gave an Intro to Firmware Reverse Engineering workshop during Remoticon and we followed up with her to dive deeper.

She brought lists upon lists of resources and many we had not seen, make sure you check them out.

• Firmware Center - https://firmware.center/
• IOT security 101 https://github.com/V33RU/IoTSecurity101
• Strings
• Binwalk
• Trustzone -ARM
  Chipwhisperer ( But also see our interview with Colin)
• Azeria Labs
• Radare2 with various GUIs like Cutter
• Literally thousands of Ghidra tutorials
• null.community

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Samy Kamkar about his new NAT Slipstreaming research and a lot more!

Samy is the co-founder of Openpath Security. You can find him on twitter @samykamkar and on his website https://samy.pl.

Here are links to some of the topics we covered:

• NAT Slipstreaming
• Mr. Robot
• draw.io
• DNS
• SIP Protocol
• HTTP Protocol
• OSI Layer
• IP Fragmentation
• RFCs
• IP Fragmentation
• RFC 791
• WebRTC
• UPnP
• Netfilter
• Binwalk
• ALG
• IDA Pro
• Ghidra
• Rolljam - Car unlocker
• David Shorey (Patreon)
• Iridescent Chocolate
• Fravia.com (archived)
• Fravia’s Pages of Reverse Engineering
• RAM Cold Boot Attack
• Biospeckle Live Imaging
• Evernote
• Notion.so
• Samytools on Github
• Rigol Oscilloscopes
• Saleae
• Sigrok
• Amscope Microscopes
• Othermill/Bantam Tools
• Cloud Chamber

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This show we are going no guest and wanted to chat about the things that are coming up and what we are finding online to enrich our stuck at home lives.

Conferences -

• HackADay - Remoticon with workshops by @TubeTImeUS - RE PCBs and @ShawnHymel - Tiny ML
• Unfortunately https://hardwear.io/ just ended but there were talks by past guests @johndmcmaster and Ken Shirriff

Tutorials

• @Chris_Gammell from Amp Hour is extending his Contextual Electronics series to a pod/Vlog.
• John McMaster And Ryan (@ringoware) extract the firmware image from silicon via photo image.
• A better tool to estimate code size.
• Depthcharge for U-Boot tutorial and docs.

History

• PG&E Failure Analysis walkthrough by @TubeTImeUS -
• NES Reversing from the late 80’s.
• More details on SNES cartridges

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Natalie Silvanovich (http://natashenka.ca/) about Tamagotchis and reverse engineering.

• Project Zero
• Tamagotchi
• Virus Therapy Science Fair Project
• Blackberry
• Kwartzlab
• Travis Goodspeed
• GeneralPlus
• Mr. Blinky
• MyMeets
• SpritesMods - Tamagotchi Singularity and (Hackaday Supercon Talk Video)
• Tamagotchi 4U
• Android APK
• Apktool
• smali
• Unity
• androguard
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe AIR
• ECMAScript
• WebRTC
• PJSIP
• Check out Natalie’s Adventures in Video Conferencing series on the Project Zero Blog.
• IDA
• Ghidra
• Frida
• Natalie’s Security Posters

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Jen and Alvaro chat with Colin O’Flynn from NewAE Technology Inc about differential power analysis, fault injection, and more!

Thank you again to all our new patrons! If you’d like to support the show, you can find us at https://www.patreon.com/unnamedre.

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

• http://colinoflynn.com/
• https://rtfm.newae.com/
• https://paulkocher.com/
• https://paulkocher.com/doc/DifferentialPowerAnalysis.pdf
• https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed
• ChipWHISPERER
• Side channel attacks
• hunter2
• Simple Power Analysis
• Matched filter
• Correlation Power Analysis
• Article: Android random number flaw implicated in Bitcoin thefts
• Article: PS3 hacked through poor cryptography implementation
• Unlooper
• Article: Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson
• Electromagnetic Fault Injection
• BADFET
• ChipSHOUTER
• Beagle480
• PhyWhisperer-USB
• Kate Temkin’s LUNA Project
• OpenVizla
• Check out our previous episode on USB Reverse Engineering with Kate and Michaela
• ARM ETM
• Segger JTrace
• Orbuculum (Open source trace)
• https://1bitsquared.com/
• Muddy Waters Research
• https://swanstromtools.com/tweezers-3/#page-content

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Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2!

We’ve started a Patreon! If you’d like to donate to support the show, but don’t care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to show@unnamedre.com.

Here are some of the survey results:

1. In your day to day life you are a:
   • Top results:
     1. Software Engineer
     2. Hardware Engineer
     3. Security Engineer
     4. Firmware Engineer
   • Other interesting ones:
     1. Carpenter
     2. Doctor
     3. Students/educators
   • Most people do listen a lot. Some several per day and some multiple per week 60%

2. Who else are you listening to:

   • Top ones:
     1. The Amp Hour
     2. Embedded.fm
     3. Darknet Diaries
     4. HackADay Podcast
     5. SecurityNow!
     6. Macrofab Engineering Podcast
   • This week in xxxx, cpp cast, Risky Business, On the Metal

   • Listening while:

   • 60% during zoning out: commute/chores

   • 20% during desk work or exercise

   • Listening via:

   • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.

   • Podcast apps used
   • Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
   • When do you listen to new shows?
   • ⅕ only when interested, otherwise pretty quickly listen to new show.
   • How to find us?
   • Social media 44 or 30%
   • Amp hour/embedded total of 25%
   • Suggested by web or other means like other pods 63%
   • In person 2 people
   • What have been your favorite episode types?
   • Guest episodes 3:2 guests to just cohost
   • Just Jen and Alvaro
   • Conferences 1:3 confs to guests
   • Fave episodes
   • Jeri 26
   • Conferences
   • Dmitri 2
   • Ghidra 18
   • Frequency
   • 51% Too Infrequent
   • 42% Just right
   • You want more but not at the expense of content.
   • You like the interviews for
   • Casual conversions with good questions to help understand new concepts and tools.
   • After listening to an episode
   • You learned some new stuff and are ready to try out a new project. All around 95% of the audience fell into these categories.
   • Parts you like overall:
   • Knowledgeable guests and hosts (whew…)
   • Ok but could find more topics.
   • Show notes and website:
   • You use the show notes!! 80+% use them in some capacity.
   • Hardly anyone used the website but only for show notes (31%)
   • Things to change
   • We have a bimodal audience for beginner versus depth. It’s great but challenging.
   • We can tag better to help meet your needs.
   • Alter music gain.
   • Giggling will probably continue. Sorry.
   • Things to keep
   • You like us! Yay!
   • Topics:
   • Soooo many topics and people.
   • You want: stickers and tees

The intro song is Happiest Robot and the outro is Digital Zen, both by TeknoAxe.

We’ve been using Zencastr to record the show.

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In today’s show, we chat with Amie DD and Will C about the Hack-a-sat challenge and team ADDVulcan.

For details on the PSA by Rachel Tobac and WISP head over to https://www.wisporg.com and read about #ShareTheMicInCyber. You can donate to the campaign here.

Our listener survey is still open. If you haven't already, please check it out!

Here are links to some of the topics covered in the episode:

• https://www.hackasat.com/
• ADDVulcan Github (Includes challenge solve write-ups)
• Discord
• Ghidra
• Matlab
• GNU Octave
• https://www.cubesatshop.com/product/eyassat-classroom-satellite/
• https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/09/image-from-trump-tweet-identified-as.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set
• https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/
• https://www.carhackingvillage.com/
• https://github.com/AmieDD/TeslaModel3Hack
• https://nyan-sat.com/

You can find out more about Amie at https://amiedd.com and you can call Will anytime at (617) 440-8667.

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As we close on the start of our 4th year, we want to check in with you, the audience to find out more about who you are, how we are are doing and what would make the podcast better.

So please take a moment to take our 5 minute survey. If you opt to give us your email address you will be entered for a chance to win a Analog Discovery 2.

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Aaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering (https://testfixturedesign.com/ and https://designtheproduct.com/) joined us to talk about mechanical reverse engineering.

You can also check out their Being an Engineer Podcast.

They might not have mentioned this during the show, but they have a bunch of great videos on their YouTube channel (including some on reverse engineering!)

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

• https://www.3dsystems.com/software/geomagic-design-x
• https://www.solidworks.com/partner-product/design-x
• Lens Distortion
• Lens Distortion Correction in Lightroom
• Open Source Barrel Distortion Removal Tool
• Dremel
• Thread gauge
• https://www.engineeringslidechart.com/slidechart.htm
• https://www.ifixit.com/
• Mitutoyo Digital Calipers
• Gauge Pins
• Pin Gauges
• Ultrasonic Cutter
• The Wondercutter
• Oscillating Tools
• Micrometer
• Durometer
• Fusion 360
• AVE on YouTube
• Big Clive on YouTube
• Sketchy Shower Head
• oh_bother on Twitch
• Sophy Wong did #31DaysofFusion360
• https://www.hubs.com/ (Previously 3dhubs.com)
• https://markforged.com/
• https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/form-3/
• https://www.onshape.com/
• https://flashforge-usa.com/products/guider-ii-3d-printer?variant=5345002160166
• https://www.prusa3d.com/

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• Machine Learning Class
• Digital clock project
• Alvaro’s T-shirt Quilt
• USB-C Power Project
• StepMania
• Evil Mad Scientist Labs
• Ship Anywhere Good Food List
• Artisan Cheese Online
• Knife Skills Class (For cutting food, not people)
• Jitsi
• Strange Parts
• 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
• Alvaro’s Letterbox’d
• Movies:
• • Mood Indigo
  • 3 Idiots
  • Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
  • Moog
• Bon Appetit Reverse Engineering
• Hardwear.io Virtual Con April 30-May 1
• Toorcamp - July 14-18 2021
• Teardown 2020 - September 18-20
• Maddie Stone’s Android RE Livestream and Github repo for workshop
• Kate Temkin has her Live Stream Archives on Youtube
• Jen’s Hackaday Talk
• IDA Home

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In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk with John McMaster about the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup and some of his other projects.

MTVRE Patreon

https://siliconpr0n.org/

Hardwear.io USA

Mike Ryan

Dmitry Grinberg

Natalie Silvanovich

RPI-SEC club

Riscure

John’s station wagon

Swiss light source

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Year end review of our favorite shows, what happened in the world, and what is next.

Jennifer Wang - Harry Potter Talk From Supercon 2018

Frontline episode Season 38 Ep 5- “In the Age of AI”

Xray van via @CreativeElctrn

SEM awesomeness via @nanographs and siliconpron via @johndmcmaster

Other podcasts that you might not know about (as opposed to just Amp Hour, Embedded.FM, and HackADay Podcast):

Cybersecurity Sauna

We need to talk about infosec

Darknet diaries

Opposable Thumbs

Deep fakes (spotting) (creating) (faking)

Net Neutrality was repealed in June of 2018.

Movies:

Looker

The Prestige

Note: we had a lot of interruptions that we tried to smooth over to moderate success but might impact your listening.

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Jen and Alvaro talked to a few folks at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference!

Emily Velasco (@MLE_Online)

• Death Clock
• Hackaday Supercon Talk “Why You Should Create Ugly, Weird, and Annoying Things”

Jasmine Brackett (@asiwatch)

• Tindie
• Spencer Owen’s RC2014

Murriel (@xmurriel)

Timon (@timonsku)

• DLT One Hackaday Price Entry (And winner of the best design!)
• Sophy Wong’s Supercon Talk
• Mike Harrison’s “Everything I’ve Learnt About LEDs” Talk

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We welcomed Philip Freidin this week to the show to talk about his work in FGPAs and what kind of smart or least smart bets to take. We did spend some time to talk about how much Silicon Valley has changed by talking about cherries.

Sunnyvale landmarks

CJ Olson - for the cherries

Libby Watertower

Weird Stuff

Book on Sunnyvale

AMD2900

VLIW

OSHChip

@PhilipFreidin has a new instructional site set to be ready for 2020:

DSP-for-KIDS.com (not to be confused with Kars for Kids).

We announced Blackhoodie.re but that deadline has come and gone. We have been busy and this took a long time to get out into the world but the world doesn’t wait for us.

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A listener of the show provided the long lost blog for the "leaked" C64.

And word on the street is that TiltFive's Kickstarter is coming Tuesday morning September 24, 2019. Follow along on @tiltfive or signup on the mailing list if you didn't already miss the deadline.

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In this interview, recorded at CCCamp19, Alvaro chats with Johnny Xmas (@J0hnnyXm4s, github) about reverse engineering TSA keys/locks, web APIs, and more!

• Malört
• Jenny List
• Target Breach
• Photo from our recording location
• ICS
• Stuxnet
• MS08-067
• Deviant Ollam
• Deviant Ollam’s "I'll Let Myself In" Talk
• IronGeek TSA Keys Video
• TSA Key 3D Models on Github
• DarkSim905, J0hnny XMas, & Nite 0wl - The TSA Keys Leak [HOPE XI]
• “The laws of mathematics are very commendable”
• Cool Tools Podcast
• Basin Wrench
• Postman
• Burpsuite
• StackOverflow April Fools Joke 2011
• https://www.kasada.io
• Zach Whittaker
• Luminati IP Proxy (TrendMicro Paper on HolaVPN and Luminati)
• MonkeySocks Proxy
• Web Application Firewall
• CCCamp19 photo from above
• Various more CCCamp19 Photos

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In this two-part episode, Alvaro talks to three contestants of “The Box” contest at DEFCON 27 as well as Datagram, the creator of the contest.

Alex, Gina, and Phil joined for the first part of the show and Datagram/DG for the second.

DC27 Bomb Defusal Contest Rules

Videos from the contest in 2014:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEabTPOXh04
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcVAcTfuVI

“The Box” is part of the Tamper Evident Village. Check it out next time you’re at DEFCON!

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Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) joins Jen and Alvaro to talk about her background, past projects, reverse engineering, and her company Tilt Five.

• Jeri was recently at Gen Con.
• Dirt Track Racing
• FPGAs
• Lattice Semiconductor
• CPLDs
• VHDL
• Verilog
• Betamax
• VHS
• Analog Delay Line
• Videocipher II
• C64 DTV
• C64 SID Chip
• [New Listener provided] C64 Leak Blog from 2004
• Siliconpr0n
• Demoscene
• QVC
• Slashdot
• C64 Bull Riding
• Amiga
• Altera
• Binvis.io
• Lua
• @esden’s FPGA Workshop
• Xilinx Zynq
• Jeri’s YouTube
• Jeri’s Etch-a-sketch
• Jeri’s C64 Guitar
• Jeri’s “TSA” Scanner
• Jeri’s latest Amp Hour episode about CastAR
• HBO’s Silicon Valley
• Startups Anonymous
• Valve Software
• HTC Vive
• CastAR
• Gloom Haven
• TiltFive (@tiltfive)
• @wendys
• Penny Arcade
• Cool Tools Podcast with Jeri
• Tooth Brush for cleaning Flux
• Fiberglass brush
• @_mg_’s Reflow Video

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Alvaro chats with Kate Temkin and Mikaela Szekely from GreatScottGadgets about USB Reverse engineering.

Here are some of the things mentioned:

• HackRF
• Ubertooth
• Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum
• GreatFET
• Michael Ossmann
• Dominic Spill
• USB 2.0 Specification
• Beagle 480
• libUSB
• pyUSB
• https://usbc.tf
• https://mini.usbc.tf
• usb-tools on Github
• USBProxy
• usbmon
• Sigrok
• Glasgow
• OpenVizsla
• Saleae
• Piotr Esden-Tempski
• 1BitSquared
• ViewSB
• Wireshark
• GreatFET Rhododendron
• USB Monitoring with Wireshark on MacOS
• PhyWhisperer USB
• Facewhisperer
• Glitchkit
• Nu-map
• usb-tools Discord Chat
• Ghidra
• IDA
• Pulseview
• hacking-usb on Github
• tg165-tools on Github

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Rick Altherr joined Jen and Alvaro to talk about reverse engineering cars, server BMC’s, FPGA’s, and more!

You can find Rick on Mastodon @kc8apf and on his website: http://www.kc8apf.net

Rick will be giving trainings at RingZer0: https://www.ringzer0.training/system-firmware-attack-defense.html

Here are some links about the topics we covered:

• https://eclypsium.com
• https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46352
• DE-9/DB-9
• Intel HEX Format
• S-Box
• EFI
• BIOS
• Real Mode
• PXE ROM
• BMC
• Dell's iDRAC
• HP’s iLO
• IPMI
• U-Boot
• EFI - TianoCore
• Intel SVT DVI cable - For debugging intel systems.
• OpenBMC
• Yocto Linux
• FPGA
• Lattice iCE40
• ASIC
• TCL
• Chisel is a new high level language for FPGAs.
• VHDL
• Verilog
• FPGA LUT
• Lattice ECP5
• Yosys for FPGA tools open source synthesis.
• Next PNR - for ic40 and pcnb5/lattice
• Clifford Wolf’s Interview on The Amp Hour
• Tomu
• Fomu
• Xxd - hex dump tool on command line
• Ghidra

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In this episode, Alvaro talks to Major Malfunction at the Hardwear.io conference.

Alvaro first saw his Magstripe Madness talk at Defcon 14 (slides).

Magnasee

F2F Encoding

Magnetic Stripe Standards

Hardpwn contest

RFIDOt

Proxmark 3 developed by Iceman (patreon)

EMV

Adam’s Github

Adam’s Blog

RFIDler (Kickstarter)

HackRF

FUNCube

URH (Universal Radio Hacker)

Scapy

River Loop Sec’s KillerBee

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In another episode recorded at the Hardwear.io conference, Alvaro talked to Chris Gerlinksy(@akacastor) about ROM extraction and other IC reverse engineering tools/techniques.

Here are links to some of the things/topics mentioned:

Chris' Hardwear.io Talk

Chris’ talk about cracking satellite and pay tv systems from 33C3

Micro-probing

Wet Etching

Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP)

John McMaster’s SiliconPr0n.org

Implant ROM

Focused Ion Beam (FIB)

Reversing the Nintendo 64 CIC - REcon 2015

Chris’ consulting site - http://pdrnorth.com

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In this episode, Alvaro is joined by Jonathan Brossard to talk about the Witchcraft Compiler Collection during the Hardwear.io conference.

We talked about various tools/topics including:

• Moabi - firmware security automation tool
• Change.org
• Breaking Bitlocker - Defcon 16 Whitepaper
• Rakshasa Hardware/Firmware Backdoor
• Defcon talk and slides
• PE Binaries
• ELF Files
• QEMU
• strace
• Ltrace
• Address Space Layout Randomization
• Silent Disco
• Icecast
• IMSI Catcher
• SilentProtest.io
• SilentProtest Github
• RocketChat

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In this episode, Alvaro interviews contestants and organizers of the Hardwear.io CTF challenge

First, we’re joined by two members of the OpenToAll CTF team. Graziano and Antonius.

The second segment is with one of the creators of the CTF challenge, Philippe Teuwen(@doegox) from Quarkslab.

The third segment was with Team Pineapple.

Other topics mentioned/covered:

https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu/ctf

https://nullcon.net

https://www.hitb.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

https://www.arduino.cc

https://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/

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This week, Holly Graceful (@HollyGraceful, gracefulsecurity.com) joined us to talk about her recent hardware reverse engineering blog series and her pen(etration) testing and security career in both public and private sectors. She tells us about how she entered the field via the military and some of those differences.

We discussed breaking down projects into smaller bites. We talk about why getting access to the JTAG (use it for...) port can be super easy in the consumer product and it may be more calculated than expected. The series ends with some key fob fun.

We do a minor round up of software defined radio and the USRP used with gnuradio. We catch up on what Alvaro is doing with his SDRs.

Holly is working on more posts so stay follow to be updated with the latest.

Links that came up:

• Pulse view logic analyzer
• Michael Ossmann (of Great Scott Gadgets) tutorials (one of many)
• Cheap: Jtag on arduino, Black Magic Probe, CortexProg
• Expensive: Jtagulator , Segger Jlink
• Radio posts/tutorial- by Oona Räisänen @Windyoona (Website)

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Thomas Daede joined us after the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup to talk about Ghidra. Ghidra is the NSA’s newly-released-to-the-public software reverse engineering tool.

The source has not yet been released, but there’s a Ghidra Github placeholder.

Some of the other things we talked about:

• Application Binary Interfaces
• Dissasemblers
• The Sharp X68000 computer
• IDA
• radare
• Virt-manager
• objdump

Thomas also mentioned @marcan42’s example of comparing his own PowerPC code with Ghidra’s decompiled output.

CrowdSupply’s Teardown conference is coming up in Portland, June 21-23.

BlackHoodie will be back in the SF Bay Area in April.

Women in Security and Privacy (@wisporg) has a scholarship program for DEFCON. You can apply for the scholarship online. They’ll cover the DEFCON ticket as well as a $500 stipend for travel/accommodation. If you want to help, you can donate here. Thanks to @RachelTobac for spreading the word! As of this episode, there are 58 scholarships available!

Jen mentioned @pinkflawd’s tweet about ELF binaries.

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Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference!

Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment.

Sarah Petkus and Mark Koch

• http://zoness.com
• Digital Calipers
• SHE BON project
• Solstice

Rick Altherr

• http://www.kc8apf.net
• Hex Fiend

Ruth Grace Wong & Joe Rozner

Piotr Esden & Dominc Spill

• Black Magic Probe
• HackRF One

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Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference!

Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment.

Chris Svec - http://chrissvec.com

• SEGGER J-Link

Josh Lifton from Crowd Supply.

• Open Steno Project
• Python

Richard Whitney from the Happy Robot Company

• Hot air rework station

Alex Glow from Hackster

• Charmware
• Gator Grip Socket

Chris Gammell from The Amp Hour

• Contextual Electronics
• Analog Discovery 2
• Saleae
• Jen and Alvaro were on Episode 363 of The Amp Hour

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Alvaro was at Toorcamp and DEFCON. Chris from The Amp Hour and Jack from the Darknet Diaries podcast were also there.

Jen went to the Vintage Computer Festival

Alvaro and Jen will both be at the Hackaday Superconference this year. Call for papers is still open!!!

Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic and the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup

A listener, David, wrote up his process for reverse engineering a robot cat litter box .

Alvaro’s fridge reverse engineering twitter thread.

Bunnie Huang’s book “Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”

Jen mentioned playing with IDA and the Hex-Rays Decompiler

Dmitri’s CortexProg ARM SWD debugger/programmer.

KiwiCon

We have a mirror of PoC||GTFO on the website.

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Alvaro and Gareth talked to Joe Grand on the ferry back from Toorcamp.

Here are links to most of the things we talked about:

• San Juan Islands
• Burning Man
• Burn in the Forest
• CCCamp
• EMF Camp
• The L0pht
• DEFCON 14 Badge
• Saleae Logic Analyzer
• Bus Pirate
• Xeltek device programmer
• JTAGulator
• Joe’s Hardware Hacking Training
• BusBlaster
• JDEC Standard Manufacturer’s Identification Codes (login required)
• BSDL Files
• UrJTAG
• Openocd
• JTAGulator github
• Spin programming language
• Joe’s PCB Deconstruction Techniques
• Joe’s BSidesLV’s talk “Using Superpowers for Hardware Reverse Engineering”
• Grand Idea Studio
• Dangerous Prototypes “Dirty Decapping” Service
• DirtyPCB’s PCB RE Service
• Chris Tarnovsky and his Blackhat Talk
• Olivier Thomas (@reivilo_t)
• Texplained RE Services
• John McMaster
• Ken Shirriff
• Chris Gerlinsky
• PCB-RE Book

If you’re curious about Joe’s “Juvenile Delinquency” days, check out his Cyphercon Talk!

Here's the photo out the window Alvaro mentioned.

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Alvaro, Gareth and Piotr talked to Schneider about Iridium satellite protocol reverse engineering. (And other fun things)

Here are links to most of the stuff we talked about. They’re mostly in chronological order.

• Iridium Satellite
• CCCamp
• HackRF
• EasterHegg 2010
• Openbeacon project
• r0ket Badge
• rad1o Badge
• Check out Schneider’s talks at CCC:
• • Iridium Pager Hacking @ 31C3
  • Iridium Update @ 32C3
  • Iridium Satellite Hacking @ HOPE 2016
• RTL-SDR
• WebSDR
• GNURadio
• NumPy
• Convolutional Codes
• BCH Codes
• Spitsbergen
• Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story (Book)
• Iridium Corporation
• Iridium NEXT
• Iridium Flares
• Heavens Above Iridium Flares
• Iridium Burst
• Globalstar
• “Bent-pipe” satellite
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Wave Glider
• TI Calypso DSP
• Osmocom
• Great Scott Gadgets
• AIS (for ship tracking)
• dAISy AIS Receivers (on Tindie)
• MarineTraffic
• tnt’s Iridium Antenna:
• • Eagle CAD File's
  • OSHpark Shared Project
• Gareth mentioned these tools:
• • Awk
  • Sed
  • Grep
• gr-iridium
• Iridium-toolkit
• Wireshark
• muCCC
• Michael Ossmann’s great SDR tutorials
• Inspectrum
• Baudline
• Fosphor

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Alvaro and guest co-host Gareth(@gareth__) talked to Jared Boone(@sharebrained) about interactive television, blu-ray authoring, optical media, cheese, the HackRF portapack, and much more. Recorded during Toorcamp 2018.

Links to some of the things we talked about:

• https://www.sharebrained.com/
• The Chronulator
• Advanced Television
• Ken Pohlmann’s Principles of Digital Audio
• Talkboy
• RSA500 Series VNA’s
• HackRF Firmware
• HackRF Havoc Firmware
• TouchTunes Jukebox
• Alvaro’s cheese project
• Mbed
• Embedded.fm Blog “Embedded Wednesdays”
• Bent pipe satellite
• Schneider gr-iridium
• Operacake
• Sigidwiki - Signal Identification Wiki
• Royal Enfield Motorcycles
• Darknet Diaries Podcast
• Behind the Rind Podcast
• La Tur Cheese
• Macrofab Engineering Podcast
• Parker Dillman (@longhornengineer)
• GreatFET

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This week Mike Ryan (@mpeg4codec) joins us to talk about how he went from hacking games for stronger characters (we don’t reveal which ones; you’ll have to listen) to revealing big weaknesses in Bluetooth products.

Mike gives us the rundown on how he ended up working on UbertOOth , using wireshark, and how many UbertEEth you should use. We discuss some of the biggest mistakes developers make in their Bluetooth and BLE products. He shares some examples of this through his prior work including credit cards and skateboards. We also learn about CVEs including the one Mike has for the Skateboard.

If after this, you are worried that your next IoT product needs a security review or at least getting started with Ubertooth, you can go to the Ubertooth , CrackLE and wireshark sites. If you want some serious hands on, you can contact Mike here.

A few more tools came up to add to your list:

• Apk tool
• Hci tool (1) (tutorial)
• Perl
• Jar signer
• Gattool
• Smali - https://github.com/JesusFreke/smali
• Inspectrum

NOTE: Sorry about the rough audio, we had some technical difficulties that we resolved about 15 min in.

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This week we talk about the nebulous world of debugging interfaces, some of their history, and how they can be used in reverse engineering. We cover the basics of what are JTAG and SWD ( both ARM Debug Access Port (DAP) and ARM® Debug Interface Architecture Specification) and can they both be used to debug a MIPS processor (the answer is NO!).

We list a few other standards but also some key vendors and projects to get you debugging and controlling your next system:

• Segger J-Link/J-Trace (generally the most flexible)
• BlackMagicProbe
• ST-Link
• BusBlaster
• JTAGulator
• Cypress Miniprog3
• Microchips supports both AVR and Microchip parts for debug.

Since a few of these are from the OSHW/OSSW world, we briefly discuss the impact of this work on driving down costs and opening up the field to more people.

As always, we might have missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us.

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In this episode, we talked about measuring things (Well mostly digital and some analog things)!

• Digital Multimeter
• Oscilloscope
• • Passive vs active probes
  • Current probes
• Logic Analyzers
• • Saleae Logic
  • 1. Mentioned on the Embedded.fm podcast Episode 2
    2. Now with Real Time View!
  • Analog Discovery 2
  • Sigrok (Supported Logic Analyzers)
  • Bitscope
  • BusPirate

Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us.

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This week are we talking about tools to get you through different situations. Both of share our list of items to tackle a few common situations. By no means is this extensive but it doesn’t focus exclusively on software.

• Program extraction - Debuggers/Programmers/Readers
• • Segger J-Link/J-Trace
  • BlackMagicProbe
  • ST-Link
  • BusBlaster
  • JTAGulator
  • TL866 Universal Programmer
• Decoding the data - Binary Analysis tools (Yes, there is more than just IDA)
• • IDA (Pro) with or without decompiler
  • Binary Ninja
  • Radare 2
  • BinVis
• Real-time binary analysis - Debugging SW
• • JLink/Ozone
  • gdb/kdb/lldb
  • openOCD
  • SoftICE
  • MASM
• Listening to the hardware - Signal Analysis/Generation
• • Saleae Logic
  • Analog Discovery 2
  • Oscilloscope
  • BusPirate
  • GreatFET/GoodFET
  • USBeagle USB Analyzer and other devices AArdvark/Cheetah i2c/spi
  • Bitscope
  • LT SPICE
  • Digital Multi-Meter
  • USB Descriptor Dumper
• Listening from afar - SDR/Wireless Hardware
• • FCC-ID search
  • RTL-SDR
  • HackRF
  • BladeRF
  • Ettus Research USRP
  • Ubertooth One
  • Yardstick One
  • ChipWhisperer
  • Frontline Sodera BLE analyzer
• Even more SDR Software
• • GNURadio
  • Inspectrum
• Hardware handling tools
• • Microscopes
  • Z-axis tape
  • Soldering iron or SMD rework station with air gun
• General Tools
• • BeyondCompare
  • Lab notebooks
  • Search for the chips using:
  • 1. Octopart
    2. S-manuals

Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us.

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M. Carlton joined us to talk about being part of leading professional reverse engineering team at Senr.io. We discussed her Embedded Systems talk about IoT and in particular Devil’s Ivy (Check out the important ROP video to better understand the key concept ). In this particular case, they found that the M300 camera model using GSOAP (SOAP) parse for buffer overflow.

Not only did this issue allow spread quickly as a DOS among the M300 cameras but over 200 other Axis cameras (Hurray for code-reuse) due to using the third party code library.

M. uses several tools in her work:

• IDA Pro
• Binwalk
• Nmap
• Debuggers like gdb
• Multimeters and oscilloscopes
• VMWare

She had some excellent suggestions for improving the odds of NOT getting hacked:

1. Put a password on any consoles and let it be changeable.
2. Anticipate issues by performing security reviews.
3. Be wary of any third party libraries you use. If there are updates to these libraries, prepare to update quickly.
4. Make sure your systems are field patchable/updateable, securely.
5. Limit surface area. Limit the ability for others to analyze your system by removing/disabling consoles, UARTs, features, and JTAG interfaces.
6. Put more gates/obstacles on how easily any found exploits can be used in the system.
7. Unearth any default credentials used in your system and resolve.

In the worse case, plan in advance for a security breach to expedite deployment.

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A quick year end update and feedback show from just the hosts.

We cover the Hackaday Superconference where we handed out stickers (track us down to get one of the last few). Key highlights that Alvaro missed first hand were:

• Michael Ossmann and Dominic Spill on IR RE
• Samy Kamkar talked about car remote RE
• See many more talks here
• Spotify playlist from the conference.

We talked briefly about the ask for resources for getting started on the hardware side. If you have suggestions to share, email us!

In the meanwhile Mountain view reverse engineering meetup is happening December 12th in the new location.

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This week we were joined by the incredible IC reverse engineer, Ken Shirriff. You may know him from his Hack A Day Super Conference talk in 2016 or his blog’s many posts (Counterfeit chips, ARM 1 chip, and Sinclair Calculator). We covered quite a number of restorations (Visual6502 project, 8008 microprocessor - Ken’s restoration details)

He is currently working the Xerox Alto Restoration and we talked not only about the hardware but the microcode and software restoration. Software languages we touched on were the C predecessor, BCPL and object oriented language Smalltalk. There are number of resources out there restoring and archiving computing history:

• Computer History Museum has some of the mylar chip mask from the old process we discussed.
• Living Computer Museum in Seattle has also collaborated and done some impressive work.
• Siliconpr0n is John McMaster’s site for IC reverse engineering and more.
• http://www.bitsavers.org - Living archive for schematics, software, etc… on any number of electronics items.

Resources for getting started with analog circuits at transistor level:

• “Microelectronics Circuits” Sedra and Smith (covers all your favorite circuits like current mirroring)
• Start with die photos… analyzing is much smaller and easier
• When finally working hands on cheap acids for consumer hobbyists (aka glass etchers) also work on ICs to remove layers
• LTSpice (circuit simulator and product that gives Jen college-aged anxiety)

HackaDay Superconference coming up. Everyone on the show (here and here) have spoke at this conference. Ken and Alvaro will be there!

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We spoke with Micah Scott (@scanlime), the original inspiration for this podcast. She gave us a rundown of her past and current projects which run the gamut of consumer toys, art installations, and telling a story through technology exploration. Her past projects include coastemelt, Wacom tablet, and Fadecandy.

We also talked about her challenges on Sifteo with limited architectures and resources. We tackled some basic computer architecture types.

The latest project is Winchbot where viewers can watch Tuco and the other kitties. Micah broke down reverse engineering the gimbal motors with Sigrok. We swapped favorite tools (ipython) and Jen lost a bet. You can follow Micah along on her YouTube channel and support her on Patreon.

Have comments or suggested names for the show? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or hit us up at on the comment form. If you still cannot find us, goto http://unnamedre.com

You can find Jen on twitter @rebelbotjen and http://rebelbot.com as well as Alvaro (who was on Embedded.fm) on twitter @alvaroprieto and http://alvarop.com.

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In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk about some current events and some basic reverse engineering projects they’ve worked on.

Some of the topics covered were:

Radiolab episode

Vintage computer festival where Jen found @foone for all your floppy needs.

Reverse Engineering PCB’s with a synchrotron

Alvaro’s Keyboard Reverse Engineering project but more information on HID USB is on this page including tools and values sent to keyboard data.

Jen’s Hello Barbie project but also Digital Dress Barbie (Barbie’s first wearable!). Jen used the TL866A USB Universal Minipro Programmer

Somerset Recon Barbie RE

http://binvis.io/

What is ABI? Get caught up here.

Getting started with Reverse Engineering? Checkout https://challenges.re/

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In this episode, Jen and Alvaro chat with Dmitry Grinberg (http://dmitry.gr).

Some of the things we talked about:

• Learning to program at 9 years old, then selling TI-83/89 calculator and Palm OS programs.
• Reverse engineering PalmOS to write the first SDHC driver for it.
• Reverse engineering the SEGA VMU and writing a Cortex-M23 emulator for it.
• • Maple Bus
  • Saleae Logic 16
  • LVDS
  • IDA Pro
  • Cortex-M23
• Running Linux on an 8-bit Micro
• PSoC Reverse Engineering
• ARM SWD Protocol

Here's a photo of Jen's Dreamcast, controller, and VMU.

We had some slight technical issues with our microphone halfway through the podcast. Luckily the backup was working, but doesn't sound quite as good :(

Have comments or suggested names for the show? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or hit us up at on the comment form.

You can find Jen on twitter @rebelbotjen and http://rebelbot.com as well as Alvaro on twitter @alvaroprieto and http://alvarop.com.

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In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk about their new, yet to be named, Reverse Engineering Podcast.

Some of the links we talked about through the show:

@scanlime’s awesome reverse engineering stuff.

MTVRE Meetup

Halt and Catch Fire

Security conferences: DEFCON , blackhat, REcon

“Hardware/mechanical” reverse engineering example: Auto-syphon reverse engineering

Boost Converter with Water

Ethereal/Wireshark packet analyzer.

Alvaro’s apgForm php script.

Ken Shirriff’s great blog.

Various places to buy components in the SF Bay Area: Fry’s, HSC Surplus, Weird Stuff Warehouse, JameCo, and Evil Mad Scientist Labs

Next episode will be with guest Dmitry Grinberg! http://dmitry.gr/

Have comments or suggested names for the show? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or hit us up at on the comment form.

You can find Jen on twitter @rebelbotjen and http://rebelbot.com as well as Alvaro on twitter @alvaroprieto and http://alvarop.com.