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Hardware Hacking
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Dumping Parallel NAND with Glasgow
I recently got my Glasgow device, which is a rather impressive piece of tech. I followed the Windows installation instructions and it “Just Worked”,…
RECON 2023: Adventures of My Oven (Pinocchio) with ChipWhisperer
At RECON2023 I gave a talk about reverse engineering my Samsung Oven. This blog post has slides & links to information, with more to come! You can…

New England Hardware Security Day 2022 Talk
On April 1st, 2022 I gave a “workshop” at New England Hardware Security Day. This blog post is a quick summary of some of the links to recreate my…

Apple AirTag Teardown & Test Point Mapping
What’s inside of Apple’s new AirTag? There was already an iFixIt teardown (which I swear was missing a few items that are there now), but of course…

BAM BAM!! On Reliability of EMFI for in-situ Automotive ECU Attacks
This post is a summary of some work on an accepted paper for ESCAR EU 2020. This work was demonstration on certain NXP chips & GM ECUs, but the idea…

Square Terminal Teardown
Part-way through the Square Terminal Teardown I recently tore down a square terminal (the one with the LCD screen) and wanted to share some of these…

Amazon Echo Dot Gen 3 - Microphone Disable Circuitry
Have you been interested in the Echo Dot device? One feature they mention is that there is a microphone off button. I spent a few hours reverse…

A Call for Time Travel Resistant Cryptography (TTRC)
At CHES 2019 [rump session], I presented my revolutionary talk on Time Travel Resistant Cryptography (TTRC). This is a hugely important area of…

USB Triggering & Hacking
This blog post covers several topics that I should have made independent posts about… but anyway. Here we are. It’s September and I should have done…
FICHSA ChipWhisperer Tutorial Requirements
At the FICHSA Conference ( https://fichsa.sise.bgu.ac.il ) I will be running a short workshop on ChipWhisperer using the ChipWhisperer-Nano. A direct…