Hardwarehacking
The bench. Flipper, HackRF, Proxmark3, the O.MG cable and the $159 board that breaks confidential computing.
Field guides to what the hardware actually does - the range, the attack, and where it stops being legal.
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9 in this track // newest firstSecure Against Whom? The Hardware of Resisting Surveillance, With the Marketing Removed
The companion to the Crypto Wars piece: given that the cypherpunks won strong encryption, what does using it in…
Open report →$159 of Hardware Breaks Confidential Computing: DDRop, Dropped DDR5 Writes, and Why Encryption Is Not Freshness
A $159 board sits between a server's CPU and its DDR5 memory, passes every boot integrity check, then starts silently…
Open report →WiFi Pineapple: Evil Twin Attacks, Captive Portals, and Public WiFi's Unsolved Problem
A $100 device that can impersonate every wireless network you've ever connected to, deauthenticate you from the real…
Open report →Flipper Zero Field Guide: Sub-GHz, BadUSB, NFC and the Multi-Tool That Broke Airport Security Theater
The $200 dolphin-shaped device that triggered a Canadian government ban, unlocked hotel rooms, cloned keyfobs, and…
Open report →HackRF One and Software-Defined Radio: How to Listen to Everything the Wireless World Forgot to Encrypt
A $300 SDR transceiver can receive and transmit from 1 MHz to 6 GHz - covering aircraft transponders, pager networks,…
Open report →The USB Rubber Ducky: HID Injection, Keystroke Attacks and the Reason You Should Never Plug In a Found USB Drive
The USB Rubber Ducky looks exactly like a USB drive. The computer treats it as a keyboard. Within seconds of being…
Open report →Pwnagotchi: The AI-Powered Pet That Eats WiFi Handshakes for Breakfast
A Raspberry Pi Zero W running a reinforcement-learning agent that wanders around, sends deauthentication frames,…
Open report →O.MG Cable: The Charging Cable That Owns Your Machine
The O.MG Cable looks like a normal USB charging cable. Inside the connector housing is an ESP8266 with WiFi, running…
Open report →Proxmark3: Cloning Hotel Keys, Office Badges, and Transit Cards in Under 30 Seconds
The Proxmark3 RDV4 reads, clones, and emulates virtually every RFID access credential in use today - HID Proximity,…
Open report →Track console
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