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 ECal Interface with Cynthion GreatFET One Facedancer Smoocon Presentation - Building and Hacking USB with FPGA Packetry Rust Embassy.dev - Rust embedded framework RTT Episode 64 with Nika/ic3qu33n on MS-DOS Malware Framed.wtf Geoguessr Rainbolt ESPN8 - The Ocho Patti Labelle at the christmas tree lighting ceremony Italian Research Paper on HackRF for Time Transfer Applications  Receiving WWVB with HackRF Pro  Longitude Book A Brief History of Timekeeping book Taskmaster TV Show https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/07/17/quantum-computers-still-cant-factor-as-well-as-an-abacus/1438153 Everdell Board Game Wingspan Board Game Terraforming Mars Board Game Ark Nova Board Game Pandemic Board Game Pandemic Legacy Season 1 Hackaday Supercon Talk - Simple RF Circuit Design TI Application Note on Edge Rate Accelerators Saleae Logic MSO SDR with HackRF Training Series Videos EMFCamp Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us online at unnamedre.com  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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 Video Jon GainSec Gaines: https://gainsec.com Flock videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo Benn Jordan "I Saved a PNG Image to a Bird" 404 Media Flock Article Debugging Rules Book Julia Evan's Pocket Guide to Debugging Dungeon Crawler Carl Molly White https://soundbooththeater.com/ Dennis E. Taylor's thoughts on Audible exclusives https://thestorygraph.com/ Letterboxd LaurieWired Ghidra MCP Video (github repo) Alvaro's J-Link Post https://www.shodan.io/ Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

  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. Here's just a short list of terms that came up: DOCSIS Quadrature_amplitude_modulation Some of the exploits we covered were part of Cable Haunt. While Dan for good reason did not provide explicit sites to get started with, you may have luck with archive.org Want to try this for yourself but still waiting for your federal funding to come in? cyphercon.com 2026 is happening and you can do this much more cheaply. It's happening April 1 & 2. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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, subreddit, and Discord. Links to some other things we talked about: Zadig https://tailwindcss.com/ https://www.typescriptlang.org/ https://react.dev/ Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on mastodon @unnamedre, bluesky @unnamedre.com,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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 https://proxmark.com/ Iceman Fork - https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3 https://nmap.org/ https://flipperzero.one/ https://lab401.com/products/chameleon-ultra Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show, or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

Jen and Alvaro were guests on the Reverse Engineering Plus Plus Podcast. Check them out at REPP.show!

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/ John McMaster - https://siliconpr0n.org/ Piotr Esden-Tempski https://1bitsquared.com/ Ferrite for iOS Azeria - Arm book - https://azeria-labs.com/ https://x.com/fox0x01 https://leg-assembly.com/ Marcan Asahi linux Joe Fitz Foone Bunnie Huang - Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea Kill decision book by Daniel Suarez Maddie Stone Malware Unicorn POSEE Show stats as of December 1 2024: Title Release Date Unique Downloads duration_seconds duration_formatted 001 - Success! Aug 14, 2017 4,421 2567.41 0:42:47 002 - Cheap And Easy Aug 29, 2017 3,763 3300.19 0:55:00 003 - Barbies and Keyboards Sep 17, 2017 2,741 2025.26 0:33:45 004 - 0x0FF the Rails Oct 12, 2017 3,461 4142.3 1:09:02 005 - Circuits That Go Nowhere Nov 05, 2017 3,866 3439.2 0:57:19 006 - Marketing Via Stickers Dec 05, 2017 2,832 1029.78 0:17:09 007 - Candy Coated Jan 03, 2018 3,439 2767.85 0:46:07 008 - T0015! Part 0x1 Mar 09, 2018 3,600 1663.35 0:27:43 009 - T0015! Part 0x2: All Ur sigs R belong to uS. Apr 14, 2018 3,651 1710.66 0:28:30 010 - T0015! Part 0x3 - Debug Interfaces May 14, 2018 3,421 2127.58 0:35:27 011 - Making Too Many Assumptions Jun 03, 2018 3,199 2715.12 0:45:15 012 - Cheese vs. SDR Jun 29, 2018 3,218 3987.09 1:06:27 013 - It's Not Magic Jul 04, 2018 3,552 4965.74 1:22:45 014 - Ferrycast Jul 09, 2018 3,209 2419.78 0:40:19 015 - Updates! Aug 30, 2018 2,990 1172.03 0:19:32 016 - Supercon 2018 Part 1 Nov 10, 2018 2,731 2678.26 0:44:38 017 - Supercon 2018 Part 2 Nov 11, 2018 2,776 2866.56 0:47:46 018 - Ghidra Mar 15, 2019 3,433 1277.65 0:21:17 019 - It's Still Not Magic Apr 06, 2019 3,244 2701.62 0:45:01 020 - Hardwear.io CTF Interviews Jun 16, 2019 2,607 1747.3 0:29:07 021 - Silent Disco Wizards Jun 23, 2019 2,549 1616.32 0:26:56 022 - Bits Through the Microscope Jun 30, 2019 2,583 1455.57 0:24:15 023 - Magic Moonbeams Jul 08, 2019 2,599 1968.33 0:32:48 024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs! Jul 14, 2019 4,046 5272.64 1:27:52 025 - Opaque Magisterium Aug 14, 2019 3,418 5891.14 1:38:11 026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors! Aug 30, 2019 3,768 7437.72 2:03:57 027 - The Box Sep 08, 2019 2,728 1978.28 0:32:58 028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks Sep 15, 2019 3,326 4440.62 1:14:00 026a Easter Egg Extra Sep 21, 2019 6,666 78.3 0:01:18 029 - Old Timey Name Droppin' Oct 16, 2019 3,464 6108.44 1:41:48 030 - Supercon 2019 Dec 01, 2019 2,797 2193.4 0:36:33 031 - The Title Isn't DibbleDabble Dec 27, 2019 3,150 2691.97 0:44:51 032 - High Molarity Rants Feb 25, 2020 3,239 4232.96 1:10:32 033 - All Over the Place Apr 27, 2020 2,924 2725.33 0:45:25 034 - Mechanical RE Jun 22, 2020 2,715 5550.24 1:32:30 035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery) Jul 04, 2020 1,936 379.36 0:06:19 036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1 Jul 20, 2020 2,406 3438.36 0:57:18 037 - 2020 Survey Results Aug 04, 2020 2,100 1856.98 0:30:56 038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5 Aug 22, 2020 2,892 4540.08 1:15:40 039 - Changing the Nature of Reality Sep 13, 2020 2,667 3678.39 1:01:18 040 - Uh-tastic Oct 03, 2020 2,405 1612.5 0:26:52 041 - What did you fail at this week? Nov 07, 2020 2,956 5504.59 1:31:44 042 - Diwali in the Morning Nov 24, 2020 2,612 3324.93 0:55:24 043 - Filling In Zeros Dec 21, 2020 2,599 4542.95 1:15:42 044 - Scots Army Knife Jan 03, 2021 3,355 6217.34 1:43:37 045 - Rizin and Cutter Feb 15, 2021 3,271 4879.4 1:21:19 046 - Never Reveal the Prestige Mar 18, 2021 2,903 5659.94 1:34:19 047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars May 16, 2021 2,650 3042.08 0:50:42 048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis Jun 06, 2021 3,504 4561.54 1:16:01 049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time Jul 10, 2021 3,117 3657.36 1:00:57 050 - Four Years In Aug 22, 2021 2,737 3182.26 0:53:02 051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names Oct 05, 2021 3,113 5296.86 1:28:16 052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook Oct 26, 2021 3,607 7612.66 2:06:52 053 - It's Hammer Time! Dec 16, 2021 3,678 6024.75 1:40:24 054 - It's A Calibration, Not An Update! Feb 11, 2022 3,816 4582.27 1:16:22 055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips Mar 13, 2022 3,626 3716.49 1:01:56 056 - Listening to Jupiter Mar 16, 2022 3,981 4377.36 1:12:57 057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks! May 09, 2022 3,949 5855.03 1:37:35 058 - Technically Met the Specs Jun 15, 2022 3,424 5321.05 1:28:41 059 - Instant Nerd Snipe Jul 04, 2022 3,578 3736.53 1:02:16 060 - The Brie List Aug 12, 2022 3,504 3173.46 0:52:53 061 - A Case of the Sniffles Nov 09, 2022 3,185 3599.93 0:59:59 062 - Keymap Rain Dance Dec 30, 2022 3,581 4588.83 1:16:28 063 - I Read Online That It's Impossible Mar 26, 2023 4,054 4501.32 1:15:01 064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me May 21, 2023 3,317 4093.39 1:08:13 065 - Multitalented Grinch Jul 30, 2023 2,932 3831.25 1:03:51 066 - Use Your Scope! Dec 09, 2023 3,135 6012.58 1:40:12 067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing Mar 02, 2024 2,021 927.97 0:15:27 068 - The Monkey Button Apr 07, 2024 2,458 4131 1:08:51 069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings Apr 17, 2024 2,576 4977.68 1:22:57 070 - I Have a DediProblem Jun 09, 2024 3,135 6972.11 1:56:12 071 - Snerd Niped Sep 07, 2024 4,077 5462.2 1:31:02 Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show , or email us at [email protected] . Music by TeknoAxe ( http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe )

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) https://t8012.dev/ 37C3 - Apple's iPhone 15: Under the C Marc Zyngier's Central Scrutinizer  Macvdmtool Asahi Linux AsahiLinux USB-PD Docs  Tamarin-C iPhone/Mac bus explorer  chipSHOUTER and PicoEMP ACE up the Sleeve: Hacking into Apple's New USB-C Controller  Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack T8012 Team Ace Controller Secrets Embedded Systems Village Faultier at 1bitsquared US and EU  Crowbar (circuit) Toorcamp 2024 Keynote Video The Hardware Hacking Handbook BlackMagic Probe Orbcode Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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 https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 for UEFI  DediProg SF100(And SF600) Chip Clips chipsec UEFITool BusPirate Tigard QEMU VMWare Workstation UEFI exploitation for the masses (DEFCON 26 presentation) One Bootloader to Load Them All (DEFCON 30 presentation) BIOS Dehumidifier Function Remotely Attacking System Firmware (BlackHat 2018) Intel System Studio 2020 Intel DCI USB A/A cable for DCI Debugging Damn Vulnerable UEFI (Look out for BlackHat talk) UEFI DOOM Flappy Bird in UEFI UEFI Tetris Self-Replicating UEFI App (In 420 bytes!) System Management Interrupt Unknown Cheats Forum System Management Mode Edk-devel mailing list Xenoh Kovah's UEFI training videos efiSeek for ghidra efiXplorer for IDA Binary Ninja Intel Management Engine me_cleaner ME analyzer (By platomav) CPUMicrocodes (By platomav) Coreboot 010 Hex Editor Stardock Fences (For Icon management) Notepad++ The Newlywed Game Streamdeck Toorcamp Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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 Video Seedstudio BusBlaster Haxelerator Bunnie's "The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen" Naomi Wu's updated version of the guide OSHPark DirtyPCBs DirtySLA DirtyAcryllics DirtyCables Arduboy Canned Cheese (Alvaro's recommendation) Expressway to Pleasure Hacker Camp  Shenzhen PCBite PIZZAbite Sigrok Saleae Prusa MINI Flylin Consulting   Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at [email protected]. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)