Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes, you know where the data you need is stored, you just don’t have a way to access it. In this case, [GetHypoxic] needed to rip data off an eMMC …read more Continue reading Dumping An eMMC Chip With Many Bodge Wires
[Saulius Lukse] has been working on some single board computer, seemingly, running Linux. Naturally, that boots from a microSD card – and as development goes on, that card has to …read more Continue reading Automated MicroSD Card Swapping Helps In Embedded Shenanigans
If you ever needed proof that class-action lawsuits are a good deal only for the lawyers, look no further than the news that Tim Hortons will settle a data-tracking suit …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 7, 2022
When it comes to monolith storage cards like microSDs, I know that it’s possible to retrieve data if there’s corruption using specialist software. Likewise, if there are problems with the circuitry, then a trained specialist can solder the… Continue reading Is data retrieval from a broken NAND memory chip actually possible or not?
Macropads are great to have around for hotkey input, but things can get out of hand pretty quickly when you realize just how many shortcuts are in your life. To …read more Continue reading Console Macropad Uses SD Cards for Stylin’ and Profilin’
Tales of Raspberry Pi SD card corruption are available online by the fistful, and are definitely a constant in Pi-adjacent communities. It’s apparent that some kind of problems tend to …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption
It used to be that to play a console game, you just had to plug in a cartridge or put a CD/DVD in the optical drive. But these days, with …read more Continue reading PS2 Memory Card ISO Loader Offers Classic Gaming Bliss
When performing a factory reset on Android devices, it is my understanding that the pointers to the data located in the SD card are simply erased while the data itself remains intact, waiting for future overwriting.
However, I have recentl… Continue reading Can SD cards on mobile phones and tablets truly be erased?
If one uses a storage device (USB stick or SD card) on Windows, then it leaves "System Volume Information" folder in the file system. Would there be a way so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which computer the storage devi… Continue reading Could "System Volume Information" be used to find out on which system the storage was used?
If one formats the same USB stick (or SD card) to FAT32 file system on Windows, or on Linux, or on Android – would there be differences so a forensic guy could definitely tell on which OS or even on which specific machine the USB stick was… Continue reading Are there differences on how storages are formatted between different OS?