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 abou

069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings

Apr 17th, 2024 1h 22m

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 inst

068 - The Monkey Button

Apr 7th, 2024 1h 8m

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

067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing

Mar 3rd, 2024 15m 28s

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.

066 - Use Your Scope!

Dec 9th, 2023 1h 40m

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

065 - Multitalented Grinch

Jul 30th, 2023 1h 3m

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 Movi

064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me

May 21st, 2023 1h 8m

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/@i

063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible

Mar 26th, 2023 1h 15m

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 @stacksmashing@infosec.exchange. Here are some

062 - Keymap Rain Dance

Dec 30th, 2022 1h 16m

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 T

061 - A Case of the Sniffles

Nov 9th, 2022 1h

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

060 - The Brie List

Aug 13th, 2022 52m 54s

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 abou

059 - Instant Nerd Snipe

Jul 4th, 2022 1h 2m

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

058 - Technically Met the Specs;Low SNR: Live Hardwear io 2022

Jun 15th, 2022 1h 28m

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

057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!

May 9th, 2022 1h 37m

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 L

056 - Listening to Jupiter

Mar 17th, 2022 1h 12m

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

055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips

Mar 13th, 2022 1h 1m

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 Cowor

054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update!

Feb 11th, 2022 1h 16m

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 Minds

053 - It's Hammer Time!

Dec 16th, 2021 1h 40m

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 http

052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook

Oct 26th, 2021 2h 6m

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 th

051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names

Oct 5th, 2021 1h 28m

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

050 - Four Years In

Aug 22nd, 2021 53m 3s

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)

049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time

Jul 11th, 2021 1h

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 th

048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis

Jun 6th, 2021 1h 16m

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 h

047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars

May 16th, 2021 50m 43s

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

046 - Never Reveal the Prestige

Mar 18th, 2021 1h 34m

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 use