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Reminds me of the CHDK hackers trying to dump firmware off a Canon camera. They could get the altered firmware to activate and could read memory and control an
by phyzome 9y ago
Reminds me of the CHDK hackers trying to dump firmware off a Canon camera. They could get the altered firmware to activate and could read memory and control an LED, so... they blinked the firmware out through the LED, and read it with a ball mouse's optical sensor attached to a microphone cord. :-)
- nyreed 9y agoI half-remember reading that someone dumped the firmware of an older iPod by listening to hard disk noises. Thinking back this doesn't make much sense. EDIT: I was maybe ⅓ right https://web.archive.org/web/20070613032334/http://www.ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070613032334/http://www.ipodli...
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