Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

053 - It's Hammer Time!

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

Show Notes

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-very-own-open-source-lidar-hac.html Tamper evident presentation by past guest Datagram! Bunnie Huang Hacking the Xbox (Available as a free PDF!) The Hardware Hacking Handbook by past guest Colin O'Flynn and Jasper van Dallas Hackers Association Geographical routing protocol GNU Radio Landis+Gyr Revelo California Blackouts + Enron Yardstick one HackRF One USRP B200 URH (Universal Radio Hacker) Baudline Inspectrum Saleae Logic Analyzers Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer Travis Goodspeed Chris Gerlinsky (Past guest on episode 22!) Chris Tarnovsky xv11hacking.wikispaces.com (Archive.org) Precursor on CrowdSupply Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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