Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 3: Abusing UART (U Are RooT)

As a reminder, Lesson 1 was a primer on electronics and setting up your lab, and Lesson 2 was an introduction to classical hardware hacking. To get started with security-focused hardware hacking, let’s look at a pretty simple example: getting a root sh… Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 3: Abusing UART (U Are RooT)

Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 2: Classical Hardware Hacking

Welcome back to our ongoing series on hardware hacking and our second lesson. Last month we presented “Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics” with an appreciative nod to this fine art, the essential components needed to try … Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 2: Classical Hardware Hacking

Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics

Hardware hacking is one of those subjects that a lot of hackers appear to have great interest, but most don’t act on that interest. There are a variety of reasons why this may be such as a perceived steep learning curve, financial barrier to entry, and… Continue reading Hardware Hacking 101 – Lesson 1: Beauty, Your Home Lab and Basic Electronics

Fail More: The Story of [CNLohr]’s Clear Keytar

[CNLohr] is kinda famous round these parts; due to some very impressive and successful hacks. However, for his 20k subscriber video, he had a bit to say about failure.

Of course glass circuit boards are cool. Linux Minecraft things are also cool. Hacks on the ESP8266 that are impressive enough people thought they were an April Fool’s joke are, admittedly, very cool. (Though, we have to confess, posting on April 1 may have added to the confusion.)  For a guy who puts out so many successes you’d think he’d talk about the next ones planned; hyping up his growing subscriber …read more

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