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Chip hacker blog

Chip hacker blog

Bunnie writes – Flylogic Engineering now has an interesting blog up on chip hacking! If you liked the posts on my blog about chip hacking, you may very much enjoy the postings at Flylogic. They’ve actually got a very nice piece up on the PIC18F1320 which reveals new findings about a device that I have […]

Decrypting GSM

Check out this video from last August’s CCC Camp, which describes using a Universal Software Radio Perhiperal (USRP) to record GSM messages, and then using an FPGA to defeat the A5/1 encryption that’s used to secure an encrypted GSM channel in the span of a couple weeks. By spending a couple months to precompute a […]

Ionic wind heatsink

Ionic wind heatsink

Inventgeek has a slick DIY heatsink project. It’s completely silent, unlike the traditional CPU fan. With a $24 ion generator and a few items that you can pick up at the hardware store, the device is able to generate an ionic wind that pulls air through a traditional heatsink. The total cost is under $60, […]