Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

Listen and learn about different reverse engineering hardware projects and methods as Alvaro (@alvaroprieto) and Jen(@rebelbotjen) talk with guests about their work.

071 - Snerd Niped 09/07/2024

071 - Snerd Niped Thomas Roth (aka ) joined us again to chat about all the new projects he’s been working on. We talked about iPhone and Macbook reversing, , the , and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: (video) and at 1bitsquared US and Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/32956262

070 - I Have a DediProblem 06/09/2024

070 - I Have a DediProblem We talked to Jesse Michael () and Mickey Shkatov() about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more! Here’s a list of some of the things we talked about: (DEFCON 25 talk about Nissan Leaf exploit) for UEFI (And ) (DEFCON 26 presentation) (DEFCON 30 presentation) (BlackHat 2018) Intel System Studio 2020 Damn Vulnerable UEFI (Look out for ) (In 420 bytes!) (By platomav) (By platomav) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/31668987

069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings 04/17/2024

069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings Ian from () joined us to chat about the new , ’s, and more! Check out this for pictures of many things we mentioned on the show. (And ) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/30861818

068 - The Monkey Button 04/07/2024

068 - The Monkey Button We talked to Laurie Wired (, , ) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent series on as well as her many . Here are links to some other topics we covered: and Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/30715518

067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing 03/03/2024

067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with outside . Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We’ll try to get back on track this year :) - Hex editor Jacob mentioned. /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/30203053

066 - Use Your Scope! 12/09/2023

066 - Use Your Scope! Reverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis. James () joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the topics we covered: Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/29000043

065 - Multitalented Grinch 07/30/2023

065 - Multitalented Grinch No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀 NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks (shirt) Book Recommendations (And ) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/27606495

064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me 05/21/2023

064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me Jen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering! You can find Nika in the following places: Here are links to some of the topics we covered: BSidesSF Presentation - / () by (blog posts!) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/26904153

063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible 03/26/2023

063 - I Read Online That It’s Impossible Jen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth ( on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find Thomas on his , , and . Here are some links to the topics we covered: (Video) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by ( /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/26342769

062 - Keymap Rain Dance 12/30/2022

062 - Keymap Rain Dance David from () joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: TwinkleTwinkie on and (TI-83 RE project) arturo182 on and (Digimon Reversing Project) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on Mastodon , Twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/25464399

061 - A Case of the Sniffles 11/09/2022

061 - A Case of the Sniffles Note: We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan () about BLE reverse engineering, relay attacks, and more! and Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/24951054

060 - The Brie List 08/13/2022

060 - The Brie List Jen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years! Don’t forget to get past guest ’s new book Open Circuits over at . You can use promo code UNNAMEDRE25 to get 25% off. Alvaro is going to be in a panel about run by the awesome folks at . Here are some links to things we mentioned: Ran into past guests: One of Alvaro’s side projects: (and ) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/24041790

059 - Instant Nerd Snipe 07/04/2022

059 - Instant Nerd Snipe () joins us once again to talk SDR’s, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at . Here are some links to things we talked about: () Other Mike Ryans: Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/23627684

058 - Technically Met the Specs 06/15/2022

058 - Technically Met the Specs Special thanks to Andrea of team for inviting us. We learned a ton and meet a bunch of new people while (as of this writing) stayed COVID-free. Interviews in order: Eric Schlaepfer - author of the new book with co-author Windell Oskay (of “” fame ) “” on press. Notes there are PREORDER discounts. Jacob Creedon: Just before his talk… at the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup. Spencer Moss from Google (I’m sure you can google the company) security engineer Ken from Will McGuiness as the workshop assistant for John McMaster’s microprobing workshop. : Bluetooth expert from and previous guest. As promised he would be on this next show… but the part2 of our RF tools with him will be the next episode. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/23433944

057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks! 05/09/2022

057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks! Michael Ossmann () from joined us to chat all things SDR, Open Source Hardware, education, and more! Here are links to some of the topics we covered: (Featured in ) /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/23052989

056 - Listening to Jupiter 03/17/2022

056 - Listening to Jupiter Oleg Kutkov () joined us from Kyiv to chat about Starlink reverse engineering, astrophysics, and more! Check out for some excellent write ups on various topics. Here are some links to the topics we covered: Used the following NASA recordings in the episode: Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/22476647

055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips 03/13/2022

055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips Laura Abbott (, ) from joins us to chat about reverse engineering the LPC55S69, linux kernel development, and more!Some of the topics we covered: Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/22431845

054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update! 02/11/2022

054 - It’s A Calibration, Not An Update! Willem Melching() joins us to chat about reverse engineering cars! We discovered him through . Willem is the head of openpilot at . ! Here are links to some of the topics we discussed: - () Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/22102031

053 - It's Hammer Time! 12/16/2021

053 - It's Hammer Time! Jen and Alvaro chat with Hash () about reverse engineering smart power meters! Check out Hash’s community as well as their ! Hash is also on TikTok . Here are some links: by past guest ! by past guest and Jasper van (Past guest on ) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/21506159

052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook 10/26/2021

052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook In this episode, we chat with about reverse engineering sound cards, how the came to be, the , ethics in engineering, troubleshooting techniques, and much more! Here’s a detailed list to many of the things we talked about: by Eric Schlosser () Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/20943785

051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names 10/05/2021

051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names Our guest, Jiska Classen () is a security researcher at University of Darmstadt (why, yes you can specialize in Security here) and focuses on reverse engineering wireless things. She is a speaker at this year’s . We did a deep dive on ROM patches on Broadcom chips. You'll want to listen to this episode if you are thinking about using iOS devices for your reversing. (Jan Ruge) (Dennis Mantz) - not be confused for eternal blue. Nexmon --- Nexus monitor wifi (Jan Friebertshäuser) Thumbs up - ARM function identification Checkra1n - bootloader to jailbreak on iOS. ToothPicker (Dennis Heinze, aka Dennis #2*) fpicker - Another/2 Dennis (Dennis Heinze) Xnuspy Frida objection “funniest ever wrote” (ComCenter but this has the parsing guts) Obligatory of AirTechno on AirTag. AirGuard - android air tag app. * Sorry Dennis. You were just the second Dennis in this interview. Certainly this doesn’t reflect upon you as a person or a professional. /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/20708993

050 - Four Years In 08/22/2021

050 - Four Years In In our 50th episode, Jen and Alvaro chat about the podcast and a bunch of other random things. Alvaro’s book recommendation: Jiska() and (aka stacksmashing) have been . (by ) by from Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/20219261

049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time 07/11/2021

049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time This episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security researcher and reverse engineer, James discusses various projects including ones that aren’t video game based. James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so you don’t have to waste time web searching. Plus some of them include past guests so check them out. Logitech keyboards: Amiibo hacking stuff: Proxmark: thread that changed how Jen wrote letters in ACNH. Console tools: Dolphin emulator devkitPro: through memory card Loading custom ROMs & exploiting NES emulator in Console hacking stuff: hacking Breaking the : BootROM vulnerability Reversing the CIC Hacking the GameBoy Cartridge Jen is currently crushing on probes. /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/19769315

048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis 06/06/2021

048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis joined us to talk about containers! (Check out too!) Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/19369796

047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars 05/16/2021

047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars Jen and Alvaro chat about what they’ve been up to and a few interesting RE related reads. Alvaro was a guest in the recently. AirTags (Colin was on ) Asmita was on Dmitry has been busy! - Apple M1 processor RE Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/19122005

046 - Never Reveal the Prestige 03/18/2021

046 - Never Reveal the Prestige and from joined us to talk about their process of talking to a lot of security researchers and reverse engineers to develop a NSF report (why yes we are trying to find/get our hands on it) and how they used what they found to create their RE sharing tool. We tackle the world of RE from a different perspective which includes the importance of business development and what is market research. One of the largest takeaways they found was a 3.5 Million job gap where RE skills are needed that is relatively hidden. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/18374732

045 - Rizin and Cutter 02/15/2021

045 - Rizin and Cutter Jen and Alvaro chat with () and () about the open source reverse engineering tools and . Florian and Itay are part of the core development team for Rizin and Cutter, which forked from in December of 2020. To learn more about the project, check out the . For a quick getting started guide, check out the . Florian also recommends watching talks on beginner r2/Rizin concepts here: You can chat with the Rizin/Cutter community on their . Here are links to some of the other topics we discussed: Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/17959778

044 - Scots Army Knife 01/03/2021

044 - Scots Army Knife from joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out ! Piotr has previously joined us on episodes and . Here are some links to the topics we discussed: Złej baletnicy przeszkadza rąbek u spódnicy. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Thank you to all our Patreon members for your support. If you’d like to support us, checkout . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/17406698

043 - Filling In Zeros 12/21/2020

043 - Filling In Zeros Our guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a family processor by . Read his for more info. As we chatted about his previous projects (see episode 2), we discovered he has influenced . We spend a lot of time chatting about different processor architectures and key choices in older ones (Really just 2, 8051 and 6502). He is officially our first repeat guest. See to remember our previous chat. Dmitry mentioned looking at the . and related people like . is running until the end of the year. Bonus features of this episode: One of the hosts stressed the boundaries of the recording platform. Find out who! Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/17284688

042 - Diwali in the Morning 11/24/2020

042 - Diwali in the Morning from gave an workshop during and we followed up with her to dive deeper. She brought lists upon lists of resources and many we had not seen, make sure you check them out. Firmware Center - IOT security 101 ( But also see ) with various GUIs like Literally thousands of Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter , or email us at . Music by () /episode/index/show/reverseengineering/id/16904030

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