Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

By Jen Costillo and Alvaro Prieto

What's Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast about?

Listen and learn about different reverse engineering hardware projects and methods as Alvaro (@alvaroprieto) and Jen(@rebelbotjen) talk with guests about their work.

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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast episodes:

04.17.2024
069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings
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...
04.07.2024
068 - The Monkey Button
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...
03.03.2024
067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant. Sorry for the terrible sound quality
12.09.2023
066 - Use Your Scope!
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 ...
07.30.2023
065 - Multitalented Grinch
No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up
05.21.2023
064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me
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...
03.26.2023
063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible
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 @[email protected]. Here are some links to the topics we...
12.30.2022
062 - Keymap Rain Dance
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...
11.09.2022
061 - A Case of the Sniffles
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...
08.13.2022
060 - The Brie List
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...
07.04.2022
059 - Instant Nerd Snipe
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...
06.15.2022
058 - Technically Met the Specs
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...
05.09.2022
057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!
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...
03.17.2022
056 - Listening to Jupiter
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...
03.13.2022
055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips
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...
02.11.2022
054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update!
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: ...
12.16.2021
053 - It's Hammer Time!
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...
10.26.2021
052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook
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...
10.05.2021
051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names
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...
08.22.2021
050 - Four Years In
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...
07.11.2021
049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time
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...
06.06.2021
048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis
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...
05.16.2021
047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars
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...
03.18.2021
046 - Never Reveal the Prestige
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...
02.15.2021
045 - Rizin and Cutter
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...
01.03.2021
044 - Scots Army Knife
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...
12.21.2020
043 - Filling In Zeros
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...
11.24.2020
042 - Diwali in the Morning
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...
11.07.2020
041 - What did you fail at this week?
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...
10.04.2020
040 - Uh-tastic
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...
09.13.2020
039 - Changing the Nature of Reality
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)...
08.23.2020
038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5
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....
08.04.2020
037 - 2020 Survey Results
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,...
07.20.2020
036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1
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 ...
07.04.2020
035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)
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...
06.23.2020
034 - Mechanical RE
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...
04.27.2020
033 - All Over the Place
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...
02.25.2020
032 - High Molarity Rants
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...
12.27.2019
031 - The Title Isn’t DibbleDabble
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...
12.01.2019
030 - Supercon 2019
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...
10.17.2019
029 - Old Timey Name Droppin’
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...
09.21.2019
026a Easter Egg Extra
A listener of the show provided the long lost blog for the "leaked" C64. And word on the street is that TiltFive's Kickstarter is coming Tuesday morning September 24, 2019. Follow along on @tiltfive or signup on the mailing list...
09.15.2019
028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks
In this interview, recorded at CCCamp19, Alvaro chats with Johnny Xmas (@J0hnnyXm4s, github) about reverse engineering TSA keys/locks, web APIs, and more! Malört Jenny List Target Breach Photo from our recording location ICS Stuxnet ...
09.08.2019
027 - The Box
In this two-part episode, Alvaro talks to three contestants of “The Box” contest at DEFCON 27 as well as Datagram, the creator of the contest. Alex, Gina, and Phil joined for the first part of the show and Datagram/DG...
08.31.2019
026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors!
Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) joins Jen and Alvaro to talk about her background, past projects, reverse engineering, and her company Tilt Five. Jeri was recently at Gen Con. Dirt Track Racing FPGAs Lattice Semiconductor CPLDs VHDL Verilog Betamax...
08.14.2019
025 - Opaque Magisterium
Alvaro chats with Kate Temkin and Mikaela Szekely from GreatScottGadgets about USB Reverse engineering. Here are some of the things mentioned: HackRF Ubertooth Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum GreatFET Michael Ossmann Dominic Spill USB 2.0 Specification Beagle 480 libUSB pyUSB...
07.15.2019
024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs!
Rick Altherr joined Jen and Alvaro to talk about reverse engineering cars, server BMC’s, FPGA’s, and more! You can find Rick on Mastodon @kc8apf and on his website: http://www.kc8apf.net Rick will be giving trainings at RingZer0: https://www.ringzer0.training/system-firmware-attack-defense.html Here are...
07.08.2019
023 - Magic Moonbeams
In this episode, Alvaro talks to Major Malfunction at the Hardwear.io conference. Alvaro first saw his Magstripe Madness talk at Defcon 14 (slides). Magnasee F2F Encoding Magnetic Stripe Standards Hardpwn contest RFIDOt Proxmark 3 developed by Iceman (patreon)...
06.30.2019
022 - Bits Through the Microscope
In another episode recorded at the Hardwear.io conference, Alvaro talked to Chris Gerlinksy(@akacastor) about ROM extraction and other IC reverse engineering tools/techniques. Here are links to some of the things/topics mentioned: Chris' Hardwear.io Talk Chris’ talk about cracking satellite and...
06.23.2019
021 - Silent Disco Wizards
In this episode, Alvaro is joined by Jonathan Brossard to talk about the Witchcraft Compiler Collection during the Hardwear.io conference. We talked about various tools/topics including: Moabi - firmware security automation tool Change.org Breaking Bitlocker - Defcon 16...

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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast episodes:

069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings

068 - The Monkey Button

067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing

066 - Use Your Scope!

065 - Multitalented Grinch

064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me

063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible

062 - Keymap Rain Dance

061 - A Case of the Sniffles

060 - The Brie List

059 - Instant Nerd Snipe

058 - Technically Met the Specs

057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!

056 - Listening to Jupiter

055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips

054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update!

053 - It's Hammer Time!

052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook

051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names

050 - Four Years In

049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time

048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis

047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars

046 - Never Reveal the Prestige

045 - Rizin and Cutter

044 - Scots Army Knife

043 - Filling In Zeros

042 - Diwali in the Morning

041 - What did you fail at this week?

040 - Uh-tastic

039 - Changing the Nature of Reality

038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5

037 - 2020 Survey Results

036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1

035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)

034 - Mechanical RE

033 - All Over the Place

032 - High Molarity Rants

031 - The Title Isn’t DibbleDabble

030 - Supercon 2019

029 - Old Timey Name Droppin’

026a Easter Egg Extra

028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks

027 - The Box

026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors!

025 - Opaque Magisterium

024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs!

023 - Magic Moonbeams

022 - Bits Through the Microscope

021 - Silent Disco Wizards

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