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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast
by Jen Costillo and Alvaro Prieto
Listen and learn about different reverse engineering hardware projects and methods as Alvaro (@alvaroprieto) and Jen(@rebelbotjen) talk with guests about their work.
Episodes
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078 - Séance Mode - An Interview with Michael Ossmann
Michael Ossmann(@[email protected]) from Great Scott Gadgets joins us to chat about HackRF Pro, Cynthion, and more! Michael previously joined us on Episode 57.Here's a list of things we talked about: HackRF Pro Software Defined Radio Cynthion Beagle480 USB Analyzer Reverse-engineering VNA...
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077 - The Beatbox Diversion
Jen and Alvaro catch up on 2025. Here are some links to the things we talked about: Wing - Dopamine Enshittification California Right to Repair RECESSIM 404 Media iFixit Repair App iPhone Electrically Released Adhesive Anna's Archive Scraped 300TB from Spotify Benn Jordan Streaming Royalties…
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076 - Living In A Vast World of Craziness
An Interview With Dan Walters Dan Walters/Bytetinker joins us after a long email chain to find a time. You'll understand why it was so hard in the interview. Jen met Dan at cyphercon.com where he runs an ISP hacking village/ward. We covered a lot of stuff at various levels of the OSI stack up....
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075 - Teleporting All Over The Timeline
We talked to Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and how it became the DeskThing. You can find Nathan on his personal site and on LinkedIn. You can get more info on DeskThing in various places. There's a nice timeline of events on the DeskThing website, the DeskThing YouTube channel,...
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074 - This Coconut Won't Open
Jen and Alvaro talked to Noah Holland & Joshua Stiebel about electronic lock reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the things we talked about: https://cyphercon.com/ https://www.secretcon.com/ MTU Red Team https://unsaflok.com/ Unsaflock DEFCON Talk https://www.dormakaba.com...
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073 - REPP.show
Jen and Alvaro were guests on the Reverse Engineering Plus Plus Podcast. Check them out at REPP.show!
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072 - EOF?
Here are some of the things we talked about: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-around-objects/overview/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field_camera Jiska's inactivity reboot research 404 Media Article about inactivity reboot Joe Grand's YouTube Ken Shiriff - https://www.righto.com/...
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071 - Snerd Niped
Thomas Roth (aka Stacksmashing) joined us again to chat about all the new projects he's been working on. We talked about iPhone and Macbook reversing, HexTree.io, the RP2350 Hacking Challenge, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Getting JTAG on the iPhone 15 (video)...
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070 - I Have a DediProblem
We talked to Jesse Michael (@jessemichael) and Mickey Shkatov(@hackingthings) about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more! Here's a list of some of the things we talked about: Eclypsium Driving Down the Rabbit Hole (DEFCON 25 talk about Nissan Leaf exploit) Intel WiGig BIOS Port 0x80 UEFI...
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069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings
Ian from DangerousPrototypes (@DangerousProto) joined us to chat about the new BusPirate 5, DirtyPCB's, and more! Check out this BusPirate 5 post for pictures of many things we mentioned on the show. Ian's Halloween onion rings (And other instructables) BusPirate Taobao Ian's Maker Faire 2012…
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068 - The Monkey Button
We talked to Laurie Wired (X/Twitter, YouTube, Github) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent series on Reverse Engineering 101 as well as her many Conference Talks. Here are links to some other topics we covered: Serial Experiments Lain EIEIO...
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067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant. Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We'll try to get back on track this year :) ImHex - Hex editor Jacob mentioned.
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066 - Use Your Scope!
Reverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis. James (https://www.baldengineer.com/) joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Element 14 Presents Youtube Hackster.io News MegaIIe Video Apple II Versions Logo (Programming...
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065 - Multitalented Grinch
No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀 NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/infos/ Episode 03 - Barbies and Keyboards Barbie Liberation Organization Small Soldiers Movie Toys Movie Jumpin' Jack Flash Rust - I Hear People Talk About It (shirt)...
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064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me
Jen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering! You can find Nika in the following places: https://ic3qu33n.fyi/ https://github.com/nikaroxanne https://twitter.com/nikaroxanne https://infosec.exchange/@ic3qu33n Here are links to some of the topics we…
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063 - I Read Online That It's Impossible
Jen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth (@ghidraninja on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find Thomas on his stacksmashing.net, YouTube, and @[email protected]. Here are some links to the topics we covered: stacksmashing youtube...
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062 - Keymap Rain Dance
David from Cyber City Circuits (@MakeAugusta) joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: HackerBoxes KiCad GIMP Inkscape SVG2Shenzen TwinkleTwinkie on Twitter and Mastodon 83Redux Twitter Thread (TI-83 RE...
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061 - A Case of the Sniffles
Note: We have 5 year anniversary T-Shirts available for sale. Order is open until Nov 28. We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan (github) about BLE reverse engineering, relay attacks, and more! Libusb FTDI D2XX Motorola Mobility NCC Group Mike Ryan Ubertooth Mike's Paper on BLE Security TI BLE sniffer...
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060 - The Brie List
Jen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years! Don't forget to get past guest @TubeTimeUS's new book Open Circuits over at https://nostarch.com/open-circuits. You can use promo code UNNAMEDRE25 to get 25% off. Alvaro is going to be in a panel about Debugging Embedded Devices in Production on August...
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059 - Instant Nerd Snipe
Mike Ryan (bluetooth.expert) joins us once again to talk SDR's, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at ice9.us. Here are some links to things we talked about: Episode with Jiska Episode with Michael Ossmann Toorcon Toorcon 13 Badge Ice9 Consulting Web of Make...
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058 - Technically Met the Specs
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 )…
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057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!
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: HackRF One Ubertooth One GreatFET One A Mathematician's Lament WEP Wep dead again article APCO P25 Ettus USRP...
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056 - Listening to Jupiter
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: Back To The Future SpaceX Starlink Phased array antenna...
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055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips
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: Hubris Operating System Episode with Rick Altherr Laura's Coworker Cliff's Website Ghidra objdump SVD Loader for...
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054 - It's A Calibration, Not An Update!
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: LEGO Mindstorms PICBasic PIC Microcontroller ARM Mbed VHDL CTF...
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053 - It's Hammer Time!
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…
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052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook
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: Eric's Website (TubeTime.us)...
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051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names
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…
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050 - Four Years In
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…
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049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time
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…
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048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis
Mark Manning joined us to talk about containers! Linux Namespaces chroot Docker Kubernetes The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes Hypervisor Hyper-v gvisor containerd runc podman Dockerfile Docker secrets Jessie Frazelle (Check out her blog too!) seccomp SELinux tar Whaler Docker Hub…
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047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars
Jen and Alvaro chat about what they've been up to and a few interesting RE related reads. Alvaro was a guest in the embedded.fm podcast recently. Jen's spray paint/stencil project AirTags Past guest Colin O'Flynn's teardown and hardware RE (Colin was on Episode 38) ghidraninja's Airtag FW RE…
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046 - Never Reveal the Prestige
Cam Hackett and Lucien Brulé from Ramagine.com joined us to talk about their process of talking to a lot of security researchers and reverse engineers to develop a NSF report (why yes we are trying to find/get our hands on it) and how they used what they found to create their RE sharing tool. We...
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045 - Rizin and Cutter
Jen and Alvaro chat with Florian Märkl (metallic.software) and Itay Cohen (megabeets.net) about the open source reverse engineering tools Rizin and Cutter. Florian and Itay are part of the core development team for Rizin and Cutter, which forked from radare2 in December of 2020. To learn more…
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044 - Scots Army Knife
Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out Glasgow on Crowd Supply! Piotr has previously joined us on episodes 13 and 17. Here are some links to the topics we discussed: Quad 4C Pick-and-place Neoden Pick-and-place Unexpected Maker's Pick-and-play...
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043 - Filling In Zeros
Our guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a H8 family processor by Renasas. Read his detailed paper for more info. As we chatted about his previous projects (see episode 2), we discovered he has influenced others. We spend a lot of time chatting about…
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042 - Diwali in the Morning
Asmita Jha from Payatu gave an Intro to Firmware Reverse Engineering workshop during Remoticon and we followed up with her to dive deeper. She brought lists upon lists of resources and many we had not seen, make sure you check them out. Firmware Center - https://firmware.center/ IOT security 101...
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041 - What did you fail at this week?
Jen and Alvaro chat with Samy Kamkar about his new NAT Slipstreaming research and a lot more! Samy is the co-founder of Openpath Security. You can find him on twitter @samykamkar and on his website https://samy.pl. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: NAT Slipstreaming Mr. Robot…
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040 - Uh-tastic
This show we are going no guest and wanted to chat about the things that are coming up and what we are finding online to enrich our stuck at home lives. Conferences - HackADay - Remoticon with workshops by @TubeTImeUS - RE PCBs and @ShawnHymel - Tiny ML Unfortunately https://hardwear.io/ just…
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039 - Changing the Nature of Reality
Jen and Alvaro chat with Natalie Silvanovich (http://natashenka.ca/) about Tamagotchis and reverse engineering. Project Zero Tamagotchi Virus Therapy Science Fair Project Blackberry Kwartzlab Travis Goodspeed GeneralPlus Mr. Blinky MyMeets SpritesMods - Tamagotchi Singularity and (Hackaday…
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038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5
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...
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037 - 2020 Survey Results
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...
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036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1
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…
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035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)
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…
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034 - Mechanical RE
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,...
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033 - All Over the Place
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…
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032 - High Molarity Rants
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/ Hardwear.io USA Mike Ryan Dmitry Grinberg Natalie Silvanovich RPI-SEC club Riscure John's station wagon Swiss light...
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031 - The Title Isn't DibbleDabble
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...
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030 - Supercon 2019
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) Tindie Spencer Owen's RC2014 Murriel (@xmurriel) Timon (@timonsku) DLT…
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029 - Old Timey Name Droppin'
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 Libby Watertower...
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Listen and learn about different reverse engineering hardware projects and methods as Alvaro (@alvaroprieto) and Jen(@rebelbotjen) talk with guests about their work.
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