As someone who is interested In hardware engineering and reverse engineering....this truly is an understatement. I have an old router I wanted to dump the firm

As someone who is interested In hardware engineering and reverse engineering....this truly is an understatement. I have an old router I wanted to dump the firmware from as a learning experience to see if I could go from firmware dumping to finding a bug. You got to constantly question if its your hardware or the device that's faulty....you got to double check and make sure everything is connected. Want to do low level silicon reverse engineering? Yeah that's not cheap as the tool, chemicals, and PPE is very expensive. But I'd argure I shouldn't treat the hardware world as magic. And with how expensive these devices are, some of it being justified, other times a company just sets insane markup on items like nvidia, its reasonable to want to learn how this stuff works and how one could do it themselves. This hardware reverse engineering is also how we find/look for potential security issues or backdoors.