Addendum: if you want someone I would consider an outstanding teenage hacker... look at comex. I've seen that guy work in person and sometimes it felt like he

Addendum: if you want someone I would consider an outstanding teenage hacker... look at comex. I've seen that guy work in person and sometimes it felt like he was just streaming keystrokes into the keyboard buffer without regard for any visual feedback. That time at CCC, he was working on exploiting the Wii U. A bit later he called me over, and I was staring at a blank assembly file. He had just completed a full stack Wii U exploit, from WebKit to the kernel to the security CPU to its kernel, and expected me to dictate some assembly to him to dump the eFuses where the keys are held. I stumbled something like "Uuuuh.... I guess we need to deal with banks.... well how much memory can you dump? Uh.... yeah let's just treat it at linear.... errrr.... make a loop? I guess load a register with 0 and loop until, uhh... 0x1000? Yeah and you need to set the top bit and store that into, er.... 0xd8000...dc? I think? Let me check... uhh yeah and then read the data word from e0. I think. And put that somewhere you can dump." Made me feel like a complete idiot :)