Collaborate Disseminate
The Quest 3 VR headset is an impressive piece of hardware. It is also not open; not in the way most of us understand the word. One consequence of this …read more Continue reading Quest 3 VR Headset Can Capture 3D Video (Some Tampering Required)
As various antique computers age, it becomes increasingly hard to operate them as hardware begins to physically fail. Keeping these systems up and running often requires scavenging parts from other …read more Continue reading Macintosh Classic II With E-Ink Display
Around these parts, seeing a classic laptop or desktop computer get revived with the Raspberry Pi is fairly common. While we’re not ones to turn down a well-executed Pi infusion, we know they can be controversial at times. There’s an impression that such projects are low-effort, and that the combination …read more
Broadband gear made by Advanced Digital Broadcast is being patched to fix three vulnerabilities rated critical. Continue reading Year-Old Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in ISP Broadband Gear
Hello again readers and welcome back! Today’s blog post covers a series of (unfortunate) events that I had to work through in order to acquire data from an LG Aristo phone. These methods might also work for other devices, especially ones that are sever… Continue reading Who’s Down With PTP?
Countless Android devices are leaving themselves open to attack after being shipped with a critical port left unsecured. Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a feature that allows developers to communicate with an Android device remotely, executing commands, … Continue reading Tens of thousands of Android devices are leaving their debug port exposed
I recently spent a largely sleepless night at a hotel, and out of equal parts curiosity and boredom, decided to kill some time scanning the guest network to see what my fellow travelers might be up to. As you’d probably expect, I saw a veritable sea of Samsung and Apple devices. But buried among the seemingly endless number of smartphones charging next to their sleeping owners, I found something rather interesting. I was as picking up a number of Amazon-made devices, all of which had port 5555 open.
As a habitual Android tinkerer, this struck me as very odd. Port …read more
Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there who have purchased gun safes that can be remotely unlocked by Bluetooth. Now we can understand why somebody might think this was a good idea: the convenience of being able to hit a button on your phone and have your weapon available in the heat of the moment is arguably a big selling point for people who are purchasing something like this for home defense. But those with a more technical mind will likely wonder if the inherent risks of having your firearm (or other valuables) protected by …read more
During the development of the greatest member of the Apple II family, the Apple IIgs, someone suggested to [Woz] that a sort of universal serial bus was needed for keyboards, mice, trackballs, and other desktop peripherals. [Woz] disappeared for a time and came back with something wonderful: a protocol that could be daisy-chained from keyboard to a graphics tablet to a mouse. This protocol was easily implemented on a cheap microcontroller, provided 500mA to the entire bus, and was used for everything from license dongles to modems.
The Apple Desktop Bus, or ADB, was a decade ahead of its time, …read more
Continue reading Bringing USB Devices To The Apple Desktop Bus
A researcher has found a backdoor, which he calls Pork Explosion, in an Android bootloader built by Foxconn. Continue reading Leftover Factory Debugger Doubles as Android Backdoor
