Teens Hacked #Boston #Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time, Nobody Got Sued
four teens extended other research done by 2008 #hacker team to fully #reverseengineer "#CharlieCard," #RFID #smartcard used by Boston's #transit system. Hackers can now add any amount of money to a card or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, senior card, or even an #MBTA employee card that gives them unlimited free rides. "You name it, we can make it," says Campbell
https://archive.ph/KjWsL#selection-527.0-527.90

Hey Mastodon!

You're supposed to make an #introduction post stuffed with a bunch of obnoxious hashtags like it's 2008, right?

I'm a #programmer (mostly #cpp #c and #csharp), #modder, #software #reverseengineer, and #sonicthehedgehog fan.

I do a lot of #reverseengineering (mostly of #sega games), and develop custom libraries/tools to mod them.

Also trying to learn #japanese cuz I'm a fucking #weeb

Follow me if you want to see code, modding, shenanigans, "the sonic", L takes, and trash memes.

whats this weird #gameboy game? it's an official flash cart that Nintendo actually sold in Japan. You could plug it in to a kiosk, pay a couple hundred yen, and swap games in and out

it's got a chip in that I can't find any documentation on (MX15002UCA). definitely some custom silicon from Big N. I think its one of the last cart mappers to not be #reverseengineer ed. makes sense too, its so niche and doesn't hold a lot of value for things like emulation.

But I wanna learn how it works!

Yesterday I translated the #childrens' #book #AdaAndZangemann by the #fsfe's @kirschner and sandra brandstätter to #norwegian.

Today I #gift the first copy (from the printer at the public library) to my nephew. He's got a #tinkerer and destructor heart, so here's to hoping he becomes a white-hat #hacker or #ReverseEngineer

Wanted: someone to #ReverseEngineer #Razer's #RazerSynapse program to find out what it's doing outside of Windows' performance settings - if install and run it, my 5900HX runs at 4.1ghz, without it, 3.5-3.8ghz.

There really isn't enough memory in the system to run the silly thing all of the time.

Oh nice, I just noticed that someone added a link to my Kaitai Struct description of macOS' DS_Store files to the Wikipedia page of the file format (in the "External links" section)! 😃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store

#macOS #FileFormat #ReverseEngineer

Does anyone know of an #AI assisted tool to #ReverseEngineer search queries (keywords and operators) from a set of titles (and abstracts)? Preferably #OpenSource & locally executable rather than proprietary cloud based solutions.

For example:
1. The caveats of continuous deployment in production.
2. On continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
3. Continuous integration in enterprise organizations.

Could result in:
"continuous" AND ("integration" OR "delivery" OR "deployment")

#research

a friend sent me this, and i don’t know if i should be laughing, crying, or both at the same time. like, what?! #reverseengineer #malware #malwareanalysis #reverseengineering #jobs

I want to marry his t-shirt tucking, high-waisted trouser wearing, geeky, dorky daddy ass

https://youtu.be/aHx-XUA6f9g

#KenShirriff #whenTheyGoHighHeGoesLow #reverseEngineer

How to #reverseengineer a #JSON #API on a single page application

Blog post
https://serpapi.com/blog/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-json-api-spa/

Oh wow! Free #Lensa modded APK with "Unlimited Subscription Unlocked" and it's 50MB smaller than the Google Play Store version. Hope it's not #Malware I get to #ReverseEngineer 🤔

I picked up a #SomaEther "anti-radio" over the holiday. It's more or less a radio without any kind of frequency filtering, so it's just an absolute magnet for all kinds of RF interference. Walking around town hearing all the digital noises and hidden machines behind walls and such.

It brings a little slice of the ol' romanticism I used to enjoy before knowing what things actually are -- a hidden world beyond what we can seeeeee....

It's neat. And incredibly overpriced. But I'm happy, at least. Just wandered around town looking hella sus. :P

Anyway, here's some circuit board porn if anyone wants to #reverseengineer it.

@charlesdardaman @reverseics

My dad is a MechE, when I told him I got hired as a #reverseengineer he asked me:

Dad: So you take things apart and don't have to put them back together?

Me: That is correct

Him: That sounds like the perfect job for you.

I am pretty sure that was a slick backhanded compliment.

Ioactive #reverseEngineer-ed Tesla's NFC protocol to perform a relay attack and open the car in seconds
https://labs.ioactive.com/2022/09/nfc-relay-attack-on-tesla-model-y-josep.html

Trying something out. Thought I'd share one way I #ReverseEngineer Javascript samples.

Our EDR quarantined a rather small HTML file.

It's just a short JS wrapper. For JS, I like to use node running on a CentOS 7.9 sandbox. I copy/paste portions of a sample directly into node for execution. Node isn't a browser so it's not going to have objects like document.write. First thing is to swap that for console.log, then copy/paste the whole line in and see what happens.

Turns out the unescaped JS is yet another HTML wrapper of JS. So, repeat.

There's yet another HTML wrapper of JS, but at least now we got some meat. Of interest is it had the email address of the user on the victim machine, so this was targeted. Perhaps a phish. Next is to find out what those var a's are. As before, swap out document.write for console.log, and this time we copy the variables as well.

There we go. So overall what this original sample did was create three calls to pull in more Javascript. For us, we already block the entire .xyz TLD, so we're good there. Just need to follow up on that third link.

Fixing a 30-year Old Roland Bug

https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/fixing-a-30-year-old-roland-bug/

#ReverseEngineering #reverseengineer #MusicalHacks #digitalsynth #RepairHacks #repair #roland

Your power company knows what you are using, and when you are using it (and so can anyone else with a software defined radio).

Want to know how Smartmeters work?

Well done video. Smartmeter hacking.
#Smartmeters #privacy #Energy #Power #Electronics #Hacking #ReverseEngineer #SDR #Radio
https://youtu.be/gYowTR3Dfdk

Zelda 64 has been fully decompiled: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/zelda-64-has-been-fully-decompiled-potentially-opening-the-door-for-mods-and-ports/ #gaming #decompiled #retro #zelda64 #ocarinaoftime #zelda #reverseengineer #pc #port

@MartinG @skoschi @kuketzblog
Ich bin selbst Nutzer von Sailfish OS. Und es ist sicherlich Datenschutzfreundlicher als Android und Co. Dennoch muss #SFOS viel auf propitärere Blobs von Sony bzw. Android setzen. Hierfür werden sog. hybris-libs benötigt. Solche Blobs gibt es aber leider immer wieder. Selbst das #pinephone ist davor nicht sicher, wobei dort gerade erst das modem per #reverseengineer quelloffen wurde. Puhh, hoffentlich alles richtig erklärt?! :-)