Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

Michael Ossmann( @mossmann@mastodon.social ) from Great Scott Gadgets joins us to chat about HackRF Pro , Cynthion, and more! Michael previously joined us on Episode 57 .Here's a list of things we talked about: HackRF Pro Software Defined Radio Cynthion Beagle480 USB Analyzer Reverse-engineering  VNA ECal Interface with Cynthion GreatFET One Facedancer Smoocon Presentation - Building and Hacking U...

Jen and Alvaro catch up on 2025. Here are some links to the things we talked about: Wing - Dopamine Enshittification California Right to Repair RECESSIM   404 Media iFixit Repair App iPhone Electrically Released Adhesive Anna's Archive Scraped 300TB from Spotify Benn Jordan Streaming Royalties Video Jon GainSec Gaines: https://gainsec.com Flock videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY ht...

  An Interview With Dan Walters Dan Walters/ Bytetinker joins us after a long email chain to find a time. You'll understand why it was so hard in the interview. Jen met Dan at cyphercon.com where he runs an ISP hacking village/ward.  We covered a lot of stuff at various levels of the OSI stack up. Here's just a short list of terms that came up: DOCSIS Quadrature_amplitude_modulation Some of the ex...

We talked to Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and how it became the DeskThing . You can find Nathan on his personal site and on LinkedIn . You can get more info on DeskThing in various places. There's a nice timeline of events on the DeskThing website , the DeskThing YouTube channel , subreddit , and Discord . Links to some other things we talked about: Zadig https://tailwindcss.com/ http...

Jen and Alvaro talked to Noah Holland & Joshua Stiebel about electronic lock reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the things we talked about: https://cyphercon.com/ https://www.secretcon.com/ MTU Red Team https://unsaflok.com/ Unsaflock DEFCON Talk https://www.dormakaba.com https://proxmark.com/ Iceman Fork - https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3 https://nmap.org/ https://flippe...

Jen and Alvaro were guests on the Reverse Engineering Plus Plus Podcast. Check them out at REPP.show!

Here are some of the things we talked about: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-around-objects/overview/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field_camera Jiska's inactivity reboot research 404 Media Article about inactivity reboot Joe Grand's YouTube Ken Shiriff - https://www.righto.com/ John McMaster - https://siliconpr0n.org/ Piotr Esden-Tempski https://1bitsquared.com/ Ferrite for iOS Az...

Thomas Roth (aka Stacksmashing ) joined us again to chat about all the new projects he's been working on. We talked about iPhone and Macbook reversing, HexTree.io , the  RP2350 Hacking Challenge , and more!  Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Getting JTAG on the iPhone 15 (video) https://t8012.dev/ 37C3 - Apple's iPhone 15: Under the C Marc Zyngier's Central Scrutinizer  Macvdmtool A...

We talked to Jesse Michael ( @jessemichael ) and Mickey Shkatov( @hackingthings ) about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more! Here's a list of some of the things we talked about: Eclypsium Driving Down the Rabbit Hole (DEFCON 25 talk about Nissan Leaf exploit) Intel WiGig BIOS Port 0x80 UEFI https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 for UEFI  DediProg SF100 (And SF600 ) Chip Clips chipsec UEFITool BusPi...

Ian from DangerousPrototypes ( @DangerousProto ) joined us to chat about the new BusPirate 5 , DirtyPCB 's, and more! Check out this  BusPirate 5 post for pictures of many things we mentioned on the show. Ian's Halloween onion rings (And other instructables ) BusPirate Taobao Ian's Maker Faire 2012 Video Seedstudio BusBlaster Haxelerator Bunnie's "The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen" Nao...

We talked to Laurie Wired ( X/Twitter , YouTube , Github ) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent series on Reverse Engineering 101 as well as her many Conference Talks .  Here are links to some other topics we covered: Serial Experiments Lain EIEIO instruction  Java Native Interface (JNI) .ipa file Virustotal MalwareBazaar RetroBar for Windows ...

Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant . Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We'll try to get back on track this year :) ImHex - Hex editor Jacob mentioned.

Reverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis. James ( https://www.baldengineer.com/ ) joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Element 14 Presents Youtube Hackster.io News MegaIIe Video Apple II Versions Logo (Programming Language) 7400 Series Logic PLCC Package The MiSTer Project Digilent Digital Discovery Schmitt Trigger...

No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀 NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/infos/ Episode 03 - Barbies and Keyboards Barbie Liberation Organization Small Soldiers Movie Toys Movie Jumpin' Jack Flash Rust - I Hear People Talk About It (shirt) OpenSauce Maker Faire Bay Area 2023 Alvaro's USB Cable Tester Book Recommendations ARM Assembly and Reverse...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering! You can find Nika in the following places: https://ic3qu33n.fyi/ https://github.com/nikaroxanne https://twitter.com/nikaroxanne https://infosec.exchange/@ic3qu33n Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Leviathan Security Group Hardware Happy Hour (3H) San Francisco BSidesSF Presentation -  MTV Reboot...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth ( @ghidraninja on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find Thomas on his stacksmashing.net , YouTube , and @stacksmashing@infosec.exchange . Here are some links to the topics we covered: stacksmashing youtube channel Linux on iPod Airtag fault injection twitter thread Bypassing code protection on NRF52 Rasp...

David from Cyber City Circuits ( @MakeAugusta ) joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: HackerBoxes KiCad GIMP Inkscape SVG2Shenzen TwinkleTwinkie on Twitter and Mastodon 83Redux Twitter Thread (TI-83 RE project) Sensor Watch on CrowdSupply   arturo182 on Twitter and Mastodon http://datamath.org/ https://t...

Note: We have 5 year anniversary T-Shirts available for sale. Order is open until Nov 28. We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan ( github ) about BLE reverse engineering, relay attacks, and more! Libusb FTDI D2XX Motorola Mobility NCC Group Mike Ryan Ubertooth Mike's Paper on BLE Security TI BLE sniffer Nordic BLE nRF sniffer https://www.ellisys.com/products/bex400/ Time-of-flight 802.15z Relay attack ...

Jen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years! Don't forget to get past guest @TubeTimeUS 's new book Open Circuits over at https://nostarch.com/open-circuits . You can use promo code UNNAMEDRE25 to get 25% off. Alvaro is going to be in a panel about Debugging Embedded Devices in Production on August 25th run by the awesome folks at Memfault . Here are some links to things we mentioned: Toorcamp Ran...

Mike Ryan ( bluetooth.expert ) joins us once again to talk SDR's, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at ice9.us . Here are some links to things we talked about: Episode with Jiska Episode with Michael Ossmann Toorcon Toorcon 13 Badge Ice9 Consulting Web of Make Believe on Netflix Caltrain MTVRE Hacking Electric Skateboards Video @ DEFCON23 Inspectrum Rapid Radi...

Special thanks to Andrea of Hardwear.io team for inviting us. We learned a ton and meet a bunch of new people while (as of this writing) stayed COVID-free. Interviews in order:   Eric Schlaepfer - author of the  new book with co-author Windell Oskay (of " Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories " fame )  " Open Circuits " on No Starch press. Notes there are PREORDER discounts. Jacob Creedon: Just before...

Michael Ossmann ( @michaelossmann ) from Great Scott Gadgets joined us to chat all things SDR, Open Source Hardware, education, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: HackRF One Ubertooth One GreatFET One A Mathematician's Lament WEP   Wep dead again article APCO P25 Ettus USRP NTLMv1 Dominic Spill GNU Radio Michael's KiCon Talk   gr-bluetooth Michael's awesome video series on...

Oleg Kutkov ( @olegkutkov ) joined us from Kyiv to chat about Starlink reverse engineering, astrophysics, and more! Check out his awesome website for some excellent write ups on various topics. Here are some links to the topics we covered: Back To The Future SpaceX Starlink Phased array antenna Arecibo observatory Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Oleg's Allsky Camera Writeup Medical Research that...

Laura Abbott ( website , @openlabbott ) from Oxide.computer joins us to chat about reverse engineering the LPC55S69, linux kernel development, and more! Some of the topics we covered: Hubris Operating System Episode with Rick Altherr Laura's Coworker Cliff's Website Ghidra objdump SVD Loader for Ghidra Log4j ghidra DEF CON 29 - Breaking TrustZone M: Privilege Escalation on LPC55S69 Arm TrustZone-M...

Willem Melching( @PD0WM ) joins us to chat about reverse engineering cars! We discovered him through his excellent blog . Willem is the head of openpilot at comma.ai . They are hiring ! Here are links to some of the topics we discussed: LEGO Mindstorms PICBasic PIC Microcontroller ARM Mbed VHDL CTF Comma.ai CAN Bus Automotive ethernet CAN FD FlexRay DBC Files Opendbc The Car Hackers Handbook Hacki...