Hackaday Newsletter 0xA6

Even before you hit the roadblock, do your background research! [HACKADAY](?mc_cid=181eff734b&mc_eid=UNIQID) Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better [Read Article Now»]( Do Your Research By [Elliot Williams]( We were talking about a sweet hack this week, wherein [Alex] [busts the encryption for his IP web cam firmware]( so that he can modify it later. He got a number of lucky breaks, including root on the device just by soldering on a serial terminal, but was faced with having to reverse-engineer a binary that implemented RSA encryption and decryption. Especially when they’re done right, and [written to avoid side-channel attacks]( encryption routines aren’t intuitive, even when you’re looking at the C source. Reversing it from the binary would be a tremendous hurdle. That’s when [Alex] started plugging in strings he found in the binary into a search engine. And that’s when he found exactly the open source project that the webcam used, which gave him the understanding he needed to crack the rest of the nut. Never forget! When you’re doing some reverse engineering, whether hardware or software, do a search for every part number and every string you find in memory. If you’re like me, it might feel like cheating a little bit, but it’s just being efficient. It’s what all your hacker heroes say they do, and if you’re lucky, it might just be the break you need too. Contests and Supercons First off, we just started our [2024 Tiny Games Challenge](. If you have a game that does a lot with a little, let us know. There are three $150 DigiKey gift certificates on the line. Next, we have two new videos from last year’s Supercon that just got written up. [Bob Hickman] took us down the rabbit hole of [porting classic arcade games to other platforms]( while still retaining as much of the performance and feel of the original as possible. Punchline: the devil is in all of the interesting details. And [Pierce Nichols] has been [building autonomous sailboats]( with awesome wing sails. The sea is a rough mistress, and this talk goes through all of the challenges. From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Secrets of the Old Digital Design Titans]( By [Al Williams]( When you can't fit all the logic in your head, map it out! [Read more »]( [This Week in Security: Snowflake, The CVD Tension, and Kaspersky’s Exit — And Breaking BSOD]( By [Jonathan Bennett]( This is the week that everyone got a BSOD. [Read more »]( [FDM Filament Troubles: Keeping Hygroscopic Materials From Degrading]( By [Maya Posch]( What goes wrong when your filament gets wet? It depends on the material. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 280: TV Tubes as Amplifiers, Smart Tech in Sportsballs, and Adrian Gives Us the Fingie]( By [Hackaday Editors](?mc_cid=181eff734b&mc_eid=UNIQID) What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Print Wave Metal Casting]( [Flexures Make Robotic Fingers Simpler to Print]( [CUDA, But Make It AMD]( [Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984]( [Hacking an IP Camera To Run Your Own Software]( [This Modded Shopping Cart Probably Isn’t Street Legal]( [Hackaday](?mc_cid=181eff734b&mc_eid=UNIQID) NEVER MISS A HACK [Share]( [Share]( [Share]( [Terms of Use]( [Privacy Policy]( [Hackaday.io]( [Hackaday.com]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update preferences]( Hackaday.com · 61 S Fair Oaks Ave Ste 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105-2270 · USA