Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

Jen and Alvaro chat with Hash ( @bitbangingbytes ) about reverse engineering smart power meters! Check out Hash's RECESSIM community as well as their Discord ! Hash is also on TikTok @bitbangbytes . Here are some links: Remoticon presentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 Night rider lights Kinect reversing challenge ROS https://www.engadget.com/2010-11-29-neato-xv-11-robot-vacuum-gets-its-ve...

In this episode, we chat with @TubeTimeUS about reverse engineering sound cards, how the MOnSter 6502 came to be, the Snappy Video Snapshot , ethics in engineering, troubleshooting techniques, and much more! Here's a detailed list to many of the things we talked about: Eric's Website (TubeTime.us) MoNSter 6502 PCB Reverse Engineering - Hackaday Supercon Presentation Cloning a Sound Card - Hardware...

Our guest, Jiska Classen ( @naehrdine ) is  a security researcher at University of Darmstadt (why, yes you can specialize in Security here) and focuses  on reverse engineering wireless things. She is a speaker at this year's  Hardwear.io . We did a deep dive on ROM patches on Broadcom chips. You'll want to listen to this episode if you are thinking about using iOS devices for your reversing. https...

In our 50th episode, Jen and Alvaro chat about the podcast and a bunch of other random things. Alvaro's book recommendation: https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/ AfterShokz Bone Conducting Headphones Hackaday Podcast Jiska( @naehrdine ) and @ghidraninja (aka stacksmashing) have been hosting RE chats on twitter . Darknet Diaries Podcast Asahi Linux Progress Report (by @marcan42 ) Smart Mete...

This episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security researcher and reverse engineer, James Chambers.  James discusses various projects including ones that aren't video game based.  James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so y...

Mark Manning joined us to talk about containers!  Linux Namespaces chroot Docker Kubernetes The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes Hypervisor Hyper-v gvisor containerd runc podman Dockerfile Docker secrets Jessie Frazelle (Check out her blog too!) seccomp SELinux tar Whaler Docker Hub   Mark's 'brick' image. (Don't run it!) K3s memenetes HomeAssistant Tamagotchi Cluster Heroku Tesla Kubern...

Jen and Alvaro chat about what they've been up to and a few interesting RE related reads. Alvaro was a guest in the embedded.fm podcast recently. Jen's spray paint/stencil project AirTags Past guest Colin O'Flynn's teardown and hardware RE (Colin was on Episode 38 ) ghidraninja's Airtag FW RE Thread   ghidraninja's AirTag RE Video Arbitrary data transmission via Apple's Find My network   https://a...

Cam Hackett and Lucien Brulé from Ramagine.com joined us to talk about their process of talking to  a lot of security researchers and reverse engineers to develop a NSF report (why yes we are trying to find/get our hands on it) and how they used what they found to create their RE sharing tool. We tackle the world of RE from a different perspective which includes the importance of  business develop...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Florian Märkl ( metallic.software ) and Itay Cohen ( megabeets.net ) about the open source reverse engineering tools Rizin and Cutter . Florian and Itay are part of the core development team for Rizin and Cutter, which forked from radare2 in December of 2020. To learn more about the project, check out the Rizin FAQ . For a quick getting started guide, check out the Rizin B...

Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out Glasgow on Crowd Supply ! Piotr has previously joined us on episodes 13 and 17 . Here are some links to the topics we discussed: Quad 4C Pick-and-place Neoden Pick-and-place Unexpected Maker's Pick-and-play Playlist Blacmagic Probe floss-jtag OpenOCD ARM Debug Interface v5 GDB JLink Orbuculum cJTAG RISC-V i...

Our guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a H8 family processor  by Renasas . Read his detailed paper   for more info. As we chatted about his previous projects (see episode 2), we discovered he has influenced others . We spend a lot of time chatting about different processor architectures and key choices in older ones (Really just 2, 8051 and 6502).  He is off...

Asmita Jha from Payatu gave an Intro to Firmware Reverse Engineering workshop during Remoticon and we followed up with her to dive deeper. She brought lists upon lists of resources and many we had not seen, make sure you check them out. Firmware Center - https://firmware.center/ IOT security 101 https://github.com/V33RU/IoTSecurity101 Strings Binwalk Trustzone -ARM Chipwhisperer ( But also see our...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Samy Kamkar about his new NAT Slipstreaming research and a lot more! Samy is the co-founder of Openpath Security. You can find him on twitter @samykamkar and  on his website https://samy.pl . Here are links to some of the topics we covered: NAT Slipstreaming Mr. Robot draw.io   DNS SIP Protocol HTTP Protocol OSI Layer IP Fragmentation RFCs IP Fragmentation RFC 791 WebRTC U...

This show we are going no guest and wanted to chat about the things that are coming up and what we are finding online to enrich our stuck at home lives. Conferences - HackADay - Remoticon with workshops by @TubeTImeUS - RE PCBs and @ShawnHymel - Tiny ML Unfortunately https://hardwear.io/ just ended but there were talks by past guests @johndmcmaster and Ken Shirriff Tutorials @Chris_Gammell from Am...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Natalie Silvanovich ( http://natashenka.ca/ ) about Tamagotchis and reverse engineering.  Project Zero Tamagotchi Virus Therapy Science Fair Project Blackberry Kwartzlab Travis Goodspeed GeneralPlus Mr. Blinky MyMeets SpritesMods - Tamagotchi Singularity and ( Hackaday Supercon Talk Video ) Tamagotchi 4U Android APK Apktool smali Unity androguard Adobe Flash Adobe AIR ECMA...

Jen and Alvaro chat with Colin O'Flynn from NewAE Technology Inc about differential power analysis, fault injection, and more! Thank you again to all our new patrons! If you'd like to support the show, you can find us at https://www.patreon.com/unnamedre . Here are links to some of the things we talked about: http://colinoflynn.com/ https://rtfm.newae.com/ https://paulkocher.com/ https://paulkoche...

Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2! We've started a Patreon ! If you'd like to donate to support the show, but don't care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to  show@unnamedre.com. Here are some of the survey results: In your day to day life you are a:...

In today's show, we chat with Amie DD and Will C about the Hack-a-sat challenge and team ADDVulcan . For details on the PSA by Rachel Tobac and WISP head over to https://www.wisporg.com and read about #ShareTheMicInCyber . You can donate to the campaign here . Our listener survey is still open. If you haven't already, please check it out! Here are links to some of the topics covered in the episode...

As we close on the start of our 4th year, we want to check in with you, the audience to find out more about who you are, how we are are doing and what would make the podcast better. So please take a moment to take our 5 minute survey. If you opt to give us your email address you will be entered for a chance to win a Analog Discovery 2 .

Aaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering ( https://testfixturedesign.com/ and https://designtheproduct.com/ ) joined us to talk about mechanical reverse engineering. You can also check out their Being an Engineer Podcast . They might not have mentioned this during the show, but they have a bunch of great videos on their YouTube channel (including some on reverse engineeri...

Machine Learning Class Digital clock project Alvaro's T-shirt Quilt USB-C Power Project StepMania Evil Mad Scientist Labs Ship Anywhere Good Food List Artisan Cheese Online Knife Skills Class (For cutting food, not people) Jitsi Strange Parts 3-2-1 Backup Strategy Alvaro's Letterbox'd   Movies: Mood Indigo 3 Idiots Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary Moog Bon Appetit Reverse Engineering  H...

In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk with John McMaster about the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup and some of his other projects. MTVRE Patreon https://siliconpr0n.org/ Hardwear.io USA Mike Ryan Dmitry Grinberg Natalie Silvanovich RPI-SEC club Riscure   John's station wagon Swiss light source   Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show ,  or email us at show@un...

Year end review of our favorite shows, what happened in the world, and what is next. Jennifer Wang - Harry Potter Talk From Supercon 2018 Frontline episode Season 38 Ep 5- "In the Age of AI" Xray van via @CreativeElctrn SEM awesomeness via @nanographs and siliconpron via @ johndmcmaster   Other podcasts that you might not know about (as opposed to just Amp Hour, Embedded. FM, and HackADay Podcast)...

Jen and Alvaro talked to a few folks at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference ! Emily Velasco ( @MLE_Online ) Death Clock Hackaday Supercon Talk "Why You Should Create Ugly, Weird, and Annoying Things" Jasmine Brackett ( @asiwatch ) Tindie Spencer Owen's RC2014 Murriel ( @xmurriel ) Timon ( @timonsku ) DLT One Hackaday Price Entry (And winner of the best design!) Sophy Wong's Supercon Talk Mike Harris...

We welcomed Philip Freidin this week to the show to talk about his work in FGPAs and what kind of smart or least smart bets to take. We did spend some time to talk about how much Silicon Valley has changed by talking about cherries. Sunnyvale landmarks CJ Olson - for the cherries Libby Watertower Weird Stuff Book on S unnyvale AMD2900 VLIW OSHChip @PhilipFreidin has a new instructional site set to...