Collaborate Disseminate
Ticketmaster is having a rough time lately. Recently, a hacker named [Conduition] managed to reverse-engineer their new “safe” electronic ticket system. Of course, they also had the recent breach where …read more Continue reading Ticketmaster SafeTix Reverse-Engineered
Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of …read more Continue reading Looking At Standard-Cell Design in the Pentium processor
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool hardware hacks. We don’t get to see many mechanical reverse-engineering efforts, though, which …read more Continue reading Hackable Ham Radio Gives Up Its Mechanical Secrets
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By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure tha… Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Ticketmaster’s Barcode System
On the one hand, we were impressed that a tiny Brother label maker actually uses CUPS to support printing. Like [Sdomi], we were less than impressed at how old a …read more Continue reading Hacking a Brother Label Maker: Is your CUPS half empty or half full?
The look, the feel, the sound — there are few things more satisfying in this world than a nice switch. If you’re putting together a device that you plan on …read more Continue reading Toyota Heater Switches Learn New Tricks
If something has a “smart” in its name, you know that it’s talking to someone else, and the topic of conversation is probably you. You may or may not like …read more Continue reading Smartwatch Snitches on Itself and Enables Reverse Engineering
If you’ve ever bought a modchip that adds features to your game console, you might have noticed sanded-off IC markings, epoxy blobs, or just obscure chips with unknown source code. …read more Continue reading An Open XBOX Modchip Enters The Scene
Did you know you can get a “smart bed” that tracks your sleep, breathing, heart rate, and even regulates the temperature of the mattress? No? Well, you can get root …read more Continue reading Root Your Sleep Number Smart Bed, Discover It Phoning Home
Over the last few years, it’s been increasingly common for concertgoers to be handed a light-up bracelet from PixMob that synchronizes with the others in the crowd to turn the …read more Continue reading Hosting Your Own PixMob Party Made Easy