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Decapping, staining, and reading ROMs with a microscope?? Using some clock timing trick to electrically dump ROMs? Holy crap that is some insane dedication.
by jey 17y ago
Decapping, staining, and reading ROMs with a microscope?? Using some clock timing trick to electrically dump ROMs? Holy crap that is some insane dedication.
- joezydeco 17y agoNot when there's money to be made. Some of these techniques came from the guys breaking the encryption on satellite TV systems.
- sp332 17y agoThe Mifare Classic hackers cut slices off the chip, scanned the slices and used a buggy Matlab script to recreate the circuitry inside. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825150 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825150