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 No.1069790>>1070062 >>1070211 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Right now I'm trying to reverse engineer the firmware for a USB dongle, and although there's very little documentation for the chip, the code is unencrypted, uncompressed, and it's actually uploaded by the PC to the device on every boot, so very little chance of bricking. And it's cheap.

That got me thinking, what other devices have firmware that can be easily modified to do useful things?

Some I know of:

>s1mp3 can run arbitrary code on chinese mp3 players

>canon camera hack can get you more options for your camera

>there's at least one oscilloscope that can be hacked to increase bandwidth

>some handies can be modified to get more frequencies

>DD-WRT

>calypso based phones can be made to run OsmocomBB, a libre GSM stack

>sdcards and USB drives have modifiable firmware

Any more that I'm missing?

 No.1069799>>1070006

Rockbox

https://www.rockbox.org/

So many hours playing Pokémon and Doom at school on that tiny LCD of a Sansa Clip+


 No.1069935

Sorry OP, this thread is about actual technology and not boomer conspiracy theories or jews so it doesn't really belong here.


 No.1070006>>1070025

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Does anyone know if what I posted in the picture (from IDA Pro) means it's accessing the address 0x2 or loading the immediate value 0x2 into the register? I'm assuming the "mov r0, 0x87FFE8" is an address, or is it an immediate value too? Arch is ARCompact if it matters

>>1069799

Oh, yeah, I remember that, I came across it when reading about s1mp3 firmwares. Pretty cool.

Even printers can run Quake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLHx3vO7KJM

Other firmware hacks I remembered after making the thread:

>amazon ebook readers (and others) can be jailbroken and run custom apps

>people modifying car ECU firmwares to improve performance


 No.1070025

>>1070006

After some research, I found Arc's mov instruction doesn't have memory access (similar to SPARC), and now the main problem I have is I don't know how to distinguish DMA IO and RAM addresses. The dongle I'm trying to modify is a DTV receiver, to emulate software defined radio functionality on another chip than the traditional RTL one, and the main thing I'm trying to find is how to send data through the USB port for further debugging.


 No.1070062>>1070158

>>1069790 (OP)

Now you have me thinking OP

Cars/Construction Equipment an be controled remotely and tuned

Old satellite dishes into radio telescopes or just track and pirate whatever satellite frequency you want

Old network cards into scanners and jammers

You could probably turn a household microwave into a jammer or https://mad-science.wonderhowto.com/how-to/turn-microwave-oven-transformer-into-high-amperage-metal-melter-0140772/


 No.1070124>>1070158

>s1mp3 can run arbitrary code on chinese mp3 players

could someone use that to make very cheap bomb detonators?

would a modern, 21th century Ted use that?


 No.1070158>>1070160

>>1070062

Microwave ovens supposedly were ran with the door open pointing to the sky as radar decoys (bait for HARM missiles basically) during the Yugoslav war. How effective that was is unclear. It might work as a wifi jammer, but you'd have to check the frequency.

If we're including just any hacking (and not just firmware) then there are more examples. A lot of cheap SDRs are repurposed chips that were designed for specialized consumer purposes.

Parallel, serial ports and sound cards are used for different IO needs. Hard drives have strong magnets in them. If you break a little chunk and cover it in glue, put it in your ear and place a magnetic loop antenna around your neck you now have an invisible earpiece that probably rivals what government spies had until the 70s. Inkjet printers can use almost any liquid as ink. Laser printers can be used to make circuit boards (inkjets are less effective but I've heard they might work too).

>>1070124

Spotted the fed.


 No.1070160

>>1070158

Oh, and forgot to say that besides the magnetron you can also get a pretty large transformer and some high voltage diodes and capacitors, which could be used as a HV power supply or for some other purposes (like turning the transformer into a spot welding machine). They're pretty cool devices. It'll be even more interesting if solid-state ovens ever become commonplace (they would have yuge power transistors going into the GHz range). I doubt (((they))) will ever let that happen though, can't have any random goy blasting thousands of watts of microwaves at arbitrary frequencies. Could probably be used to jam satellites tbh. (on the topic https://invidio.us/watch?v=UC2r9VbP-oI)


 No.1070211

>>1069790 (OP)

Cheap CSR8510 dongles can be modified to run in USB HID mode.

There's a premade tool for that, and there's also CSR ROM Config tool which can configure CSR BT audio chips too.

SammyGO which is a mod for Samsung TVs running linux, I think it's dead though.




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