Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

Latest Episodes:

058 - Technically Met the Specs Jun 15, 2022

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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 with co-author Windell Oskay (of "Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories" fame ) "Open Circuits" on No Starch press. Notes there are PREORDER discounts.
Jacob Creedon: Just before his talk… at the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup.
Spencer Moss from Google (I'm sure you can google the company) security engineer
Ken from Somerset Recon
Will McGuiness as the workshop assistant for John McMaster's microprobing workshop.
Mike Ryan: Bluetooth expert from Ice 9 Consulting and previous guest. As promised he would be on this next show… but the part2 of our RF tools with him will be the next episode.

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks! May 09, 2022

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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:

056 - Listening to Jupiter Mar 17, 2022

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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:

Used the following NASA recordings in the episode:

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips Mar 13, 2022

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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:

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

054 - It's A Calibration, Not An Update! Feb 11, 2022

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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:

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

053 - It's Hammer Time! Dec 16, 2021

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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:

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook Oct 26, 2021

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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 things we talked about:

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names Oct 05, 2021

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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 dive on ROM patches on Broadcom chips. You'll want to listen to this episode if you are thinking about using iOS devices for your reversing.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/frankenstein (Jan Ruge)

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/internalblue (Dennis Mantz) - not be confused for eternal blue.

Nexmon --- Nexus monitor wifi https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/polypyus (Jan Friebertshäuser)

Thumbs up - ARM function identification https://karta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Thumbs%20Up.html

Checkra1n - bootloader to jailbreak on iOS. https://checkra.in/

ToothPicker (Dennis Heinze, aka Dennis #2*) https://github.com/seemoo-lab/toothpicker

fpicker - Another/2 Dennis (Dennis Heinze) https://github.com/ttdennis/fpicker

Xnuspy https://github.com/jsherman212/xnuspy

Frida objection https://github.com/sensepost/objection

"funniest fuzzer ever wrote" (ComCenter but this has the parsing guts)

Obligatory video of AirTechno on AirTag.

AirGuard - android air tag app. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/airguard

* Sorry Dennis. You were just the second Dennis in this interview. Certainly this doesn't reflect upon you as a person or a professional.

050 - Four Years In Aug 22, 2021

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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 twitter.
Darknet Diaries Podcast
Asahi Linux Progress Report (by @marcan42)
Smart Meter Hacking(DEFCON 2021) by @bitbangingbytes from RECESSIM
- Article related to the 2021 Texas snowstorm
Alvaro was a guest on Hackster Cafe
Jens teardown of a covid test.

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Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time Jul 11, 2021

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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 game based.

James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so you don't have to waste time web searching. Plus some of them include past guests so check them out.

Logitech keyboards:

Amiibo hacking stuff:

Animal crossing letter system thread that changed how Jen wrote letters in ACNH.

Console tools: