Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

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038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5 Aug 23, 2020

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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.

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

http://colinoflynn.com/
https://rtfm.newae.com/
https://paulkocher.com/
https://paulkocher.com/doc/DifferentialPowerAnalysis.pdf
https://twitter.com/travisgoodspeed
ChipWHISPERER
Side channel attacks
hunter2
Simple Power Analysis
Matched filter
Correlation Power Analysis
Article: Android random number flaw implicated in Bitcoin thefts
Article: PS3 hacked through poor cryptography implementation
Unlooper
Article: Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson
Electromagnetic Fault Injection
BADFET
ChipSHOUTER
Beagle480
PhyWhisperer-USB
Kate Temkin's LUNA Project
OpenVizla
Check out our previous episode on USB Reverse Engineering with Kate and Michaela
ARM ETM
Segger JTrace
Orbuculum (Open source trace)
https://1bitsquared.com/
Muddy Waters Research
https://swanstromtools.com/tweezers-3/#page-content

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

037 - 2020 Survey Results Aug 04, 2020

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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, but don't care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to show@unnamedre.com.

Here are some of the survey results:

In your day to day life you are a:
- Top results:
  1. Software Engineer
  2. Hardware Engineer
  3. Security Engineer
  4. Firmware Engineer
- Other interesting ones:
  1. Carpenter
  2. Doctor
  3. Students/educators
- Most people do listen a lot. Some several per day and some multiple per week 60%
Who else are you listening to:
- Top ones:
- This week in xxxx, cpp cast, Risky Business, On the Metal
Listening while:
- 60% during zoning out: commute/chores
- 20% during desk work or exercise
Listening via:
- Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
Podcast apps used
- Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses.
When do you listen to new shows?
- ⅕ only when interested, otherwise pretty quickly listen to new show.
How to find us?
- Social media 44 or 30%
- Amp hour/embedded total of 25%
- Suggested by web or other means like other pods 63%
- In person 2 people
What have been your favorite episode types?
- Guest episodes 3:2 guests to just cohost
- Just Jen and Alvaro
- Conferences 1:3 confs to guests
Fave episodes
- Jeri 26
- Conferences
- Dmitri 2
- Ghidra 18
Frequency
- 51% Too Infrequent
- 42% Just right
- You want more but not at the expense of content.
You like the interviews for
- Casual conversions with good questions to help understand new concepts and tools.
After listening to an episode
- You learned some new stuff and are ready to try out a new project. All around 95% of the audience fell into these categories.
Parts you like overall:
- Knowledgeable guests and hosts (whew…)
- Ok but could find more topics.
Show notes and website:
- You use the show notes!! 80+% use them in some capacity.
- Hardly anyone used the website but only for show notes (31%)
Things to change
- We have a bimodal audience for beginner versus depth. It's great but challenging.
- We can tag better to help meet your needs.
- Alter music gain.
- Giggling will probably continue. Sorry.
Things to keep
- You like us! Yay!
Topics:
- Soooo many topics and people.
You want: stickers and tees

The intro song is Happiest Robot and the outro is Digital Zen, both by TeknoAxe.

We've been using Zencastr to record the show.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1 Jul 20, 2020

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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 donate to the campaign here.

Our listener survey is still open. If you haven't already, please check it out!

Here are links to some of the topics covered in the episode:

You can find out more about Amie at https://amiedd.com and you can call Will anytime at (617) 440-8667.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery) Jul 04, 2020

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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 please take a moment to take our 5 minute survey. If you opt to give us your email address you will be entered for a chance to win a Analog Discovery 2.

034 - Mechanical RE Jun 23, 2020

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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 show, but they have a bunch of great videos on their YouTube channel (including some on reverse engineering!)

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

033 - All Over the Place Apr 27, 2020

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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
Strange Parts
3-2-1 Backup Strategy
Alvaro's Letterbox'd
Movies:
- Mood Indigo
- 3 Idiots
- Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary
- Moog
Bon Appetit Reverse Engineering
Hardwear.io Virtual Con April 30-May 1
Toorcamp - July 14-18 2021
Teardown 2020 - September 18-20
Maddie Stone's Android RE Livestream and Github repo for workshop
Kate Temkin has her Live Stream Archives on Youtube
Jen's Hackaday Talk
IDA Home

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

032 - High Molarity Rants Feb 25, 2020

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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/

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

031 - The Title Isn't DibbleDabble Dec 27, 2019

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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 @CreativeElctrn

SEM awesomeness via @nanographs and siliconpron via @johndmcmaster

Other podcasts that you might not know about (as opposed to just Amp Hour, Embedded.FM, and HackADay Podcast):

Cybersecurity Sauna

We need to talk about infosec

Darknet diaries

Opposable Thumbs

Deep fakes (spotting) (creating) (faking)

Net Neutrality was repealed in June of 2018.

Movies:

Looker

The Prestige

Note: we had a lot of interruptions that we tried to smooth over to moderate success but might impact your listening.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

030 - Supercon 2019 Dec 01, 2019

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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)

Murriel (@xmurriel)

Timon (@timonsku)

DLT One Hackaday Price Entry (And winner of the best design!)
Sophy Wong's Supercon Talk
Mike Harrison's "Everything I've Learnt About LEDs" Talk

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

029 - Old Timey Name Droppin' Oct 17, 2019

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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 changed by talking about cherries.

Sunnyvale landmarks

CJ Olson - for the cherries

Book on Sunnyvale

@PhilipFreidin has a new instructional site set to be ready for 2020:

DSP-for-KIDS.com (not to be confused with Kars for Kids).

We announced Blackhoodie.re but that deadline has come and gone. We have been busy and this took a long time to get out into the world but the world doesn't wait for us.

Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at show@unnamedre.com.

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

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