Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

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026a Easter Egg Extra Sep 21, 2019

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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 if you didn't already miss the deadline.

028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks Sep 15, 2019

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In this interview, recorded at CCCamp19, Alvaro chats with Johnny Xmas (@J0hnnyXm4s, github) about reverse engineering TSA keys/locks, web APIs, and more!

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

027 - The Box Sep 08, 2019

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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 for the second.

DC27 Bomb Defusal Contest Rules

Videos from the contest in 2014:

"The Box" is part of the Tamper Evident Village. Check it out next time you're at DEFCON!

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

026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors! Aug 31, 2019

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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
VHS
Analog Delay Line
Videocipher II
C64 DTV
C64 SID Chip
[New Listener provided] C64 Leak Blog from 2004
Siliconpr0n
Demoscene
QVC
Slashdot
C64 Bull Riding
Amiga
Altera
Binvis.io
Lua
@esden's FPGA Workshop
Xilinx Zynq
Jeri's YouTube
Jeri's Etch-a-sketch
Jeri's C64 Guitar
Jeri's "TSA" Scanner
Jeri's latest Amp Hour episode about CastAR
HBO's Silicon Valley
Startups Anonymous
Valve Software
HTC Vive
CastAR
Gloom Haven
TiltFive (@tiltfive)
@wendys
Penny Arcade
Cool Tools Podcast with Jeri
Tooth Brush for cleaning Flux
Fiberglass brush
@_mg_'s Reflow Video

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

025 - Opaque Magisterium Aug 14, 2019

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Alvaro chats with Kate Temkin and Mikaela Szekely from GreatScottGadgets about USB Reverse engineering.

Here are some of the things mentioned:

024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs! Jul 15, 2019

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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 some links about the topics we covered:

https://eclypsium.com
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46352
DE-9/DB-9
Intel HEX Format
S-Box
EFI
BIOS
Real Mode
PXE ROM
BMC
Dell's iDRAC
HP's iLO
IPMI
U-Boot
EFI - TianoCore
Intel SVT DVI cable - For debugging intel systems.
OpenBMC
Yocto Linux
FPGA
Lattice iCE40
ASIC
TCL
Chisel is a new high level language for FPGAs.
VHDL
Verilog
FPGA LUT
Lattice ECP5
Yosys for FPGA tools open source synthesis.
Next PNR - for ic40 and pcnb5/lattice
Clifford Wolf's Interview on The Amp Hour
Tomu
Fomu
Xxd - hex dump tool on command line
Ghidra

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

023 - Magic Moonbeams Jul 08, 2019

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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)

EMV

Adam's Github

Adam's Blog

RFIDler (Kickstarter)

HackRF

FUNCube

URH (Universal Radio Hacker)

Scapy

River Loop Sec's KillerBee

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

022 - Bits Through the Microscope Jun 30, 2019

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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 pay tv systems from 33C3

Micro-probing

Wet Etching

Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP)

John McMaster's SiliconPr0n.org

Implant ROM

Focused Ion Beam (FIB)

Reversing the Nintendo 64 CIC - REcon 2015

Chris' consulting site - http://pdrnorth.com

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