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Xiaomi Scooter Firmware Hacking Gets Hands-On

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A Xiaomi 3 Lite dashboard with the panel taken off and the PCB visible, four wires connected to the SWD header.

Scooter hacking is wonderful – you get to create a better scooter from a pre-made scooter platform, and sometimes you can do that purely through firmware modifications. Typically, hackers have …read more Continue reading Xiaomi Scooter Firmware Hacking Gets Hands-On→

Xiaomi Cryptographically Signs Scooter Firmware – What’s Next?

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The dash of Xiaomi Mi 1S scooter, with the top panel taken off and an USB-UART adapter connected to the dashboard, sniffing the firmware update process

[Daljeet Nandha] from [RoboCoffee] writes to us, sharing his research on cryptographic signature-based firmware authenticity checks recently added to the Xiaomi Mi scooter firmware. Those scooters use an OTA firmware …read more Continue reading Xiaomi Cryptographically Signs Scooter Firmware – What’s Next?→