Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect

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Bambu Connect is an Electron App with Security through Obscurity principles, hence it is inherently insecure. To read the main.js for further analysis or extracting the private key stored by Bambu in the app: Use the MacOs .dmg file, not … Read more

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium compute these … Read more

Reverse Engineering the Duco Connectivity Board

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My newly built house came with a promising feature: a DucoBox Energy Comfort D325 ventilation system with heat recovery. While the system efficiently preheats incoming air using outgoing air’s heat, its control options were limited to four basic modes through … Read more

Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform

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A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION Supposedly, these lines were included in a 1979 internal presentation at IBM; screenshots of them routinely go viral: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1385565737167724545?lang=en The reason for their newfound … Read more

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

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iOS 18 introduced a new inactivity reboot security feature. What does it protect from and how does it work? This blog post covers all the details down to a kernel extension and the Secure Enclave Processor. Security Before First Unlock … Read more

What the heck are reverse mapped types?

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Reverse mapped types are a powerful yet little-known feature of TypeScript that allow us to “run mapped types backward”. They are mainly a mechanism for inferring a function’s type parameters from values; however, the same inference steps can be performed … Read more

Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)

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A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) can implement arbitrary digital logic, anything from a microprocessor to a video generator or crypto miner. An FPGA consists of many logic blocks, each typically consisting of a flip flop and a logic function, along … Read more