Brandon Wilson (@brandonlwilson) shared his stories about hacking TI calculators (and other things).
TICalc.org has the latest on getting started yourself including Z80 assemblers, or start on Brandon’s website: brandonw.net
Bradon will be speaking at Hardwear.io, a security conference for the hardware and security community. The conference consists of training (11th - 12th Sept 2018) and conference (13th - 14th Sept 2018). It is in The Hague, Netherlands. His talk is The Race to Secure Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators. He will also be hosting a village called Dumping the ROM of the Most Secure Sega Genesis Game Ever Created.
Topics:
Introduction
Brandon Wilson
Lightning Round
Calculators!
Programmable calculators, using TI BASIC
Ti-85, programmable via assembly language
App store for my calculator?
How does TI prevent cheating?
Testguard for teachers
Some are WiFi capable
How Brandon learned to hack the TI
Processors used in the TI calcs
What tools are available for reverse engineering?
Breaking the keys
Flash unlock protection
TI hacker community
TI used 512-bit RSA keys
Key broken after 2 months of brute force
TI threatened the first key breaker
Built a distributed community to attack keys
TI was not happy
DMCA takedown notice
EFF offered to help
The ethics of circumventing TIs protection
Calculators as a platform for learning HW/FW
Hackers' responsibility toward the hacked
Hacks Brandon is uncomfortable with
Bug bounties, are they effective?
Brandon's other projects
TI calculator processors used all over
Sega Genesis
Code execution via the Sega Genesis CD
Calculators changed my life (back up)
Other projects, USB
Abuse the USB protocol
Modifying USB flash drive FW
Reverse engineering tools
Hardwear.io conference, Brandon's hacking village
Brandon's Final Thought
Outro
Final Quote
