Open Sesame on Prezi
dop3j0e needed a way to recover the password on his ThinkPad’s hard drive after the laptop’s fingerprint scanner died (in which the password was stored.) Luckily, the drive’s IDE had 16 5V data lines just like the inputs on the OpenBench Logic Sniffer. He wired the Logic Sniffer to the lines and watched the data using Sump. In no time he was able to find the password, unlock the drive, and permanently remove the password.
For all the good details check out the above slide/video presentation (note that you need to click on the “right arrow” to advance to the next slide, as this is not a continuous video.)
Rubu (via the contact form) points out this link to a written explanation of the process.
Get your own Logic Sniffer for $50, with free worldwide shipping.
Via Hack A Day.
awesome use of a logic analyzer :D
very annoying “Video” to watch :|
Might have to give this ago, my OLS does not get any use these days, real shame :(
Hmmmm… Don’t know if this is great OLS promo material.
He points out that he had trouble finding a non buggy firmware for the OLS and RLE didn’t work so he had to rely on triggers.
This is Great! Got me thinking… could we do the same thing with SATA? Can we use the board to act like a SATA host controller just enough to send specific commands to the drive, etc? I do a fair amount of data recovery jobs and something like this would really nice. :-)
Mike
How could “01” means user password? According to the ATA spec, it means master password!