Tagged “reverse-engineering”
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A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years
A reverse-engineering detective story about decoding a mysterious game asset format from a classic Splinter Cell title t…
Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
A tenant who spent months cold digs into the building's shared boiler system to find out why it never works, in an enter…
binvis.io
An interactive visualizer that maps the bytes of any binary file onto colorful space-filling curves, revealing structure…
Breaking Free from DRM: Hacking My Air Purifier
A hardware-hacking story about cracking the filter DRM on an air purifier, with teardown photos, reverse engineering ste…
Can You Reverse Engineer Our Neural Network?
Jane Street presents a machine learning puzzle: given a trained network and no documentation, work out what it actually…
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Tech
Candle Flicker LEDs With a Built-in Timer
A teardown of the tiny chips inside candle-flicker LEDs, showing how a cheap integrated circuit mimics a real flame and…
Decoding the Obfuscated Bash Script on a Uniqlo T-Shirt
A playful investigation into an obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script printed on a retail t-shirt and what it turned o…
Decompiler Explorer
An interactive online tool that runs an uploaded program through many popular decompilers at once and shows their C-like…
Dieselgate, But for Trains
The story of hackers reverse engineering Polish trains that mysteriously locked up after third-party repairs, revealing…
Dmitry.GR Projects
A hardware hacker's personal site full of deep-dive projects: reviving old Palm and Pixter gadgets, emulators on tiny ch…
Don Hodges
A quirky personal site best known for meticulous analyses of classic arcade game bugs and hidden easter eggs in Pac-Man,…
Exploitee.rs
A hardware security research collective whose wiki documents vulnerabilities and rooting guides for consumer devices, a…
Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House
A humorous account of reverse engineering Waffle House's website to build a live unofficial version of the Waffle House…
Hacking my smart toothbrush
An engineer reverse engineers a Philips Sonicare toothbrush that reacts to brush heads, working out its radio tags and h…
Hacking the Timex m851
Tavis Ormandy digs into a Timex data-link watch that receives data from a computer screen's flashing bars, and reverse e…
Halo 2 in HD on the Original Xbox
A deep, readable account of patching Halo 2 to run in HD resolutions on the original Xbox, from reverse engineering the…
HardBreak
An open-source wiki that teaches hardware hacking step by step, from reconnaissance and interface interaction to firmwar…
How Compaq Cloned IBM
The Internet History Podcast tells the true story behind Halt and Catch Fire: how Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM PC B…
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Gaming
How Duke Nukem II's Parallax Scrolling Worked
An illustrated deep dive into how the 1993 DOS game Duke Nukem II faked smooth parallax backgrounds on slow PCs, with an…
How I Also Hacked My Car
A first-person write-up of reverse-engineering a car's infotainment system, with the dead ends and clever tricks needed…
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
A famous reverse-engineering write-up that found and fixed a years-old GTA Online load-time bug.
How I Reverse Engineered Google Docs
James Somers explains how he dug into Google Docs revision data to replay any document keystroke by keystroke, and shows…
How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
A reverse-engineering deep dive into how the 1994 game Pizza Tycoon moved dozens of cars around its city on tiny hardwar…
How Samba Was Written
Andrew Tridgell's famous 2003 account of reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, told with a witty analogy a…
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