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Reverse Engineering

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  1. DC34: Badge hackin'
    DC34: Badge hackin'
    • Security

    Hacking the DC34 badge: a shared loader-jump foothold, different temporary-Xous routes for K0 and Flag1, and an IFR instruction-reconstruction extension.

  2. Disney Galaxys Edge
    Disney Galaxys Edge
    • Reverse Engineering

    TL;DR -- Disney star wars games involve a bunch of scanning Aztec codes for items and challenges, I couldn't figure out how to generate my own correctly so I took apart the APK and generated each o...

  3. How to train wreck a POV fan
    How to train wreck a POV fan
    • Hardware Hacks

    Usually I have a blog post about building/breaking something with the intention of actually building or breaking it. This one however is not like the others. It started about 2 years ago, I got a P...

  4. Finding the 'unlock' codes on the Hacker Warehouse Badge Defcon 2017
    Finding the 'unlock' codes on the Hacker Warehouse Badge Defcon 2017
    • Hardware Hacks

    Defcon every year has many many different electronic badges that you can play with / hack / blind your friends with. I was lucky enough to get one of these really cool badges and I wanted to figure...

  5. Magnetic Stripes: Part 2 (Attacking)
    Magnetic Stripes: Part 2 (Attacking)
    • Hardware Hacks

    I really should have written this after ZaCon (november last year), but I'm lazy. However I have been asked to give a brief overview of the same talk at ITWeb this year so I figure I may as well fi...

  6. Bypassing LF Entry Systems
    Bypassing LF Entry Systems
    • Radio

    Its taken a lot of motivation to start writing this, and I hope its okay, I have a mental block that I need to write this and the second post about magstripes before moving on to some new things wi...

  7. Hacking fixed key remotes
    Hacking fixed key remotes
    • Radio

    Previously I discussed using my RTL-SDR to merely listen for analog audio signals . In this entry I'll discuss using it to decode digital signals (this example on fixed remote signals often used fo...

  8. Magnetic stripes Part 1
    Magnetic stripes Part 1
    • Hardware Hacks

    Intro So its been nearly a month since I last put a blog post up and I have been working on some stuff in my free time between work (been traveling to the US and took a weekend off to visit some fr...