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The itch to investigate lurks within all us hackers. Sometimes, you just have to pull something apart to learn how it works. [Stephen Crosby] found himself doing just that when …read more Continue reading Learning About The Flume Water Monitor
Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at least in the United States, where payphones were little more than ruggedized versions of residential phones with a …read more Continue reading Unexpectedly Interesting Payphone Gives Up Its Secrets
If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few months to dedicate to …read more Continue reading PlayStation Motherboard Sanded and Scanned, But There’s More To Do
Kaspersky researchers demonstrate capabilities of hrtng plugin for IDA Pro, share tips on working with IDA and reverse engineer FinSpy malware with these tools. Continue reading Our secret ingredient for reverse engineering
I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time.
Here are the technical details, discovered through reverse engineering. The feature triggers after seventy-two hours… Continue reading Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
Earlier this year [Skyhawkson] got ahold of a Apollo-era printed circuit board which he believes was used in a NASA test stand. He took high quality photos of both sides …read more Continue reading Apollo-era PCB Reverse Engineering to KiCad
Last week I completed the SAO flower badge redrawing task, making a complete KiCad project. Most of the SAO petals are already released as KiCad projects, except for the Petal …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024 SAO Petal KiCad Redrawing Project
At this point in the tech dystopia cycle, it’s no surprise that the initial purchase price of a piece of technology is likely not the last payment you’ll make. Almost …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Subscription EV Charger Becomes Standalone, Briefly
Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024 Flower SAO Badge Redrawing in KiCad
Most of us will probably have seen Nintendo’s latest gadget pop up recently. Rather than a Switch 2 announcement, we got greeted with a Nintendo-branded alarm clock. Featuring a 2.8″ …read more Continue reading Tearing Down Nintendo’s Alarmo Alarm Clock