For those readers fluent in German, fG draws your attention to an article discussing the Bus Pirate. To us it looks like they’re discussing using a BP to assist in reading an online banking card. The article is found on pages 16-25 of the Embedded Projects Journal. You can download the 36-page PDF of the […]
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Free laundry hack highlights lack of security
cam0 pried open a laundry smartcard and found an unprotected SPI EEPROM chip. He googled the part number and found a datasheet that describes the chip protocol, then dumped the data with a Bus Pirate. He found the card balance by comparing the contents before and after a load of laundry, the value was stored […]