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We never sold anything for it, but for some demos back around 2004/2005 we flashed some firewire iPods with custom firmware that performed the attack described

We never sold anything for it, but for some demos back around 2004/2005 we flashed some firewire iPods with custom firmware that performed the attack described here: https://web.archive.org/web/20071011191205/http://md.hudora.de/presentations/firewire/PacSec2004.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20071011191205/http://md.hudora.... (To be clear, those slides aren't mine, but I can no longer find the firmware we based ours off of, and never did get permission to post source to our mods, which were never distributed.) I know a couple of our customers took entirely the wrong lesson from our demonstrations and banned mp3 players from their office buildings entirely afterwards :)

anonsivalley652 7y ago
Hahaha. That's awesome. :) Speaking of things that look silly dept.: Many moons ago around 1998 in uni, I had an HP 48 graphing calculator which was both programmable and had a very powerful IR LED that was usually used for serial transfers between similar devices. It so happened that some enterprising soul made a customizable, preset and code-learning IR remote control app for it that worked, so I put the brand of the lecture hall's 4 TVs in it. From the back of the room, some 15 meters away, I subtly turned on all of the TVs with a phreak'n calculator. Disbelief, confusion and hilarity ensued.
- hoistbypetard 7y ago
  TV-B-gone before its time. That’s great. I hope I’d have done exactly the same.