Open Source Tools of the Hardware Hacking Trade
summary
A practical catalog of open source hardware tools and what they actually achieve: oscilloscope used to spot millivolt differences between a smart card and a parking meter leads to recreating the card and achieving unlimited parking; logic analyzer and Bus Pirate decode UART, SPI, I2C and expose bootloaders so devices drop to root; HackRF + GNU Radio captures and demodulates wireless sensors. Also covered: JTAGulator to find debug ports, OpenOCD/urJTAG for dumping firmware, Binwalk for carving images, and ChipWhisperer for side‑channel key extraction.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 3:15Finding the Right Tools for the Job
- 6:10Hardware Macking
- 11:27Osciloscope: Example
- 19:29Logic Analyzer Example
- 34:53Soldering Accessories
- 36:52Rework Station
- 40:26Debug Tools: Example 2
- 42:07Debug Tools: JTAG (SW)
- 42:42Debug Tools: JTAG Example
- 45:08GoodFET Example
related talks
01h 46mTutorial: Introduction to Reverse Engineering
28mThe IoT Hacker's Toolkit
51mRadio Hacking: Cars, Hardware, and more!
43mThe Tao of Hardware the Te of Implants
30mDemystifying IoT/OT Hacks With SDR
21mOpen Source IC Design and Hardware Reverse Engineering Or: How I Learned to Stop...
01h 03mHack To Discover Weaknesses In A Series Of Smartcards
30mBeyond Simple Software Debugging