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Retro Breadboard Gives Up its 1960s Secrets
When we see [Ken Shirriff] reverse engineering something, it tends to be on the microscopic level. His usual forte is looking at die photos of strange and obsolete chips and figuring out how they work....
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Hacker Challenges MemoryStick To A Fight And Wins
It’s amazing when a skilled hacker reverse-engineers a proprietary format and shares the nitty-gritty with everyone. Today is a day when we get one such write-up – about MemoryStick. It is one of those...
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#FreeDMO Gets Rid Of DYMO Label Printer DRM
DYMO 550 series printer marketing blurb says “The DYMO® LabelWriter® 550 Turbo label printer comes with unique Automatic Label Recognition”, which, once translated from marketing-ese, means “this...
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Research: It’s Like Cheating, but Fair
My niece’s two favorite classes in high school this year are “Intro to AI” and “Ethical Hacking”. (She goes to a much cooler high school than I did!) In “Hacking”, she had an assignment to figure out...
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Dumping Encrypted-At-Rest Firmware Of Xiaomi Smart Kettle
[aleaksah] got himself a Mi Smart Kettle Pro, a kettle with Bluetooth connectivity, and a smartphone app to go with it. Despite all the smarts, it couldn’t be turned on remotely. Energized with his...
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The Tools That Lovingly Tore Apart a Vintage Computer Game
The structure of computer game assets can be a bit of a mystery, even more so the older a game is, and some amount of reverse-engineering can be expected when pulling apart a game like 1995’s Night...
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A Handy Breakout Board For E-Paper Hacking
If you follow the exploits of [Aaron Christophel] (and trust us, you should), you’ll know that for some time now he’s been rather obsessed with electronic price tags, specifically those with e-paper...
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Reverse Engineering An Apollo-Era Module with X-Ray
The gear that helped us walk on the Moon nearly 60 years ago is still giving up its mysteries today, with some equipment from the Apollo era taking a little bit more effort to reverse engineer than...
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Hacking the RF Protocol of an Obscure Handheld Game
When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game Gear. But outside of those now iconic systems, there was a vast subculture of...
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CT Scans Help Reverse Engineer Mystery Module
The degree to which computed tomography has been a boon to medical science is hard to overstate. CT scans give doctors a look inside the body that gives far more information about the spatial...
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Mapping Out the LEDs on an Outlet Tester
The concept of an outlet tester is pretty simple: plug the gadget into a suspect wall receptacle, and an array of LEDs light up in various patterns to alert the user to any wiring faults. They’re...
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A Deeper Dive Into Reverse Engineering with a CT Scanner
We’ve recently got a look at how [Ken Shirriff] used an industrial CT scanner as a reverse engineering tool. The results were spectacular, with pictures that clearly showed the internal arrangement of...
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Air Filter DRM? Hacker Opts Out With NFC Sticker
[Flamingo-tech]’s Xiaomi air purifier has a neat safety feature: it will refuse to run if a filter needs replacement. Of course, by “neat” we mean “annoying”. Especially when the purifier sure seems to...
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Introducing FISSURE: A Toolbox for the RF Hacker
No matter what the job at hand is, if you’re going to tackle it, you’re going to need the right kit of tools. And if your job includes making sense out of any of the signals in the virtual soup of RF...
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Matthew [wrongbaud] Alt is Fighting the Good Fight
In a perfect world, all of our electronic devices would come with complete documentation, and there’d be open source libraries available for interfacing them with whatever we wanted. There’d never be...
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Reverse-Engineering an ISA Card to Revive an Ancient CD-ROM Drive
Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who...
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