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Reverse Engineering the Estimote

Reverse Engineering the Estimote

By Sandeep Mistry

Sandeep Mistry

Sandeep Mistry is a professional software engineer, who enjoys tinkering with the Internet of Things and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices.

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By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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It’s actually fairly hard to get your hands on an Estimote developer preview kit—as its still shipping in limited numbers—but I managed to get one of the early developer kits and, predictably, took one of the beacons apart.

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Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s

Hacking the Fingerprint Scanner on the Apple iPhone 5s

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Just days after the release of the iPhone 5s last week—which comes with a fingerprint scanner built into the home button—the biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to have successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple’s TouchID.

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Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!

Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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It didn’t take long for iFixit to teardown Apple’s new iPhone 5s, but what they found is perhaps less interesting than what they didn’t.

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