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  1. Disney Galaxys Edge
    Disney Galaxys Edge
    Reverse Engineering

    TL;DR -- Disney star wars games involve a bunch of scanning Aztec codes for items and challenges, I couldn't figure out how to generate my own correctly so I took apart the APK and generated each o...

  2. How to train wreck a POV fan
    How to train wreck a POV fan
    Hardware Hacks

    Usually I have a blog post about building/breaking something with the intention of actually building or breaking it. This one however is not like the others. It started about 2 years ago, I got a P...

  3. Finding the 'unlock' codes on the Hacker Warehouse Badge Defcon 2017
    Finding the 'unlock' codes on the Hacker Warehouse Badge Defcon 2017
    Hardware Hacks

    Defcon every year has many many different electronic badges that you can play with / hack / blind your friends with. I was lucky enough to get one of these really cool badges and I wanted to figure...

  4. Magnetic Stripes: Part 2 (Attacking)
    Magnetic Stripes: Part 2 (Attacking)
    Hardware Hacks

    I really should have written this after ZaCon (november last year), but I'm lazy. However I have been asked to give a brief overview of the same talk at ITWeb this year so I figure I may as well fi...

  5. Bypassing LF Entry Systems
    Bypassing LF Entry Systems
    Radio

    Its taken a lot of motivation to start writing this, and I hope its okay, I have a mental block that I need to write this and the second post about magstripes before moving on to some new things wi...

  6. Hacking fixed key remotes
    Hacking fixed key remotes
    Radio

    Previously I discussed using my RTL-SDR to merely listen for analog audio signals . In this entry I'll discuss using it to decode digital signals (this example on fixed remote signals often used fo...

  7. Magnetic stripes Part 1
    Magnetic stripes Part 1
    Hardware Hacks

    Intro So its been nearly a month since I last put a blog post up and I have been working on some stuff in my free time between work (been traveling to the US and took a weekend off to visit some fr...