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 exploits we covered were part of Cable Haunt.

While Dan for good reason did not provide explicit sites to get started with, you may have luck with archive.org

Want to try this for yourself but still waiting for your federal funding to come in? cyphercon.com 2026 is happening and you can do this much more cheaply. It’s happening April 1 & 2.

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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/
• https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• https://react.dev/

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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://flipperzero.one/
• https://lab401.com/products/chameleon-ultra

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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
• Azeria - Arm book - https://azeria-labs.com/ https://x.com/fox0x01 https://leg-assembly.com/
• Marcan Asahi linux
• Joe Fitz
• Foone
• Bunnie Huang - Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
• Kill decision book by Daniel Suarez
• Maddie Stone
• Malware Unicorn
• POSEE

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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
• Asahi Linux
• AsahiLinux USB-PD Docs 
• Tamarin-C iPhone/Mac bus explorer 
• chipSHOUTER and PicoEMP
• ACE up the Sleeve: Hacking into Apple’s New USB-C Controller 
• Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption
• Cold Boot Attack
• T8012 Team Ace Controller Secrets
• Embedded Systems Village
• Faultier at 1bitsquared US and EU 
• Crowbar (circuit)
• Toorcamp 2024 Keynote Video
• The Hardware Hacking Handbook
• BlackMagic Probe
• Orbcode

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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
• BusPirate
• Tigard
• QEMU
• VMWare Workstation
• UEFI exploitation for the masses (DEFCON 26 presentation)
• One Bootloader to Load Them All (DEFCON 30 presentation)
• BIOS Dehumidifier Function
• Remotely Attacking System Firmware (BlackHat 2018)
• Intel System Studio 2020
• Intel DCI
• USB A/A cable for DCI Debugging
• Damn Vulnerable UEFI (Look out for BlackHat talk)
• UEFI DOOM
• Flappy Bird in UEFI
• UEFI Tetris
• Self-Replicating UEFI App (In 420 bytes!)
• System Management Interrupt
• Unknown Cheats Forum
• System Management Mode
• Edk-devel mailing list
• Xenoh Kovah’s UEFI training videos
• efiSeek for ghidra
• efiXplorer for IDA
• Binary Ninja
• Intel Management Engine
• me_cleaner
• ME analyzer (By platomav)
• CPUMicrocodes (By platomav)
• Coreboot
• 010 Hex Editor
• Stardock Fences (For Icon management)
• Notepad++
• The Newlywed Game
• Streamdeck
• Toorcamp

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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”
• Naomi Wu’s updated version of the guide
• OSHPark
• DirtyPCBs
• DirtySLA
• DirtyAcryllics
• DirtyCables
• Arduboy
• Canned Cheese (Alvaro’s recommendation)
• Expressway to Pleasure
• Hacker Camp  Shenzhen
• PCBite
• PIZZAbite
• Sigrok
• Saleae
• Prusa MINI
• Flylin Consulting

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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 
• https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/
• Neon White game
• vx underground  trivia
• Operation Triangulation and Video Presentation “What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”
• Dalvik Executable Format (.dex)
• UPX  packer
• Apk file
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• XcodeGhost
• https://frida.re/
• https://github.com/Ch0pin/medusa

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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.