Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope(tortel.li)

227 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 125 comments

Librebooting the ThinkPad T480(ezntek.com)

156 points by axiologist 1 year ago | 64 comments

Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing(zuernerd.github.io)

54 points by Eduard 9 months ago | 11 comments

Secure Computing with Zymbit's D35(jeffgeerling.com)

17 points by ingve 3 years ago | 2 comments

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot(x86.lol)

86 points by evilmonkey19 5 months ago | 8 comments

Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh(metachris.dev)

7 points by metachris 8 months ago | 2 comments

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad(pilledtexts.com)

544 points by Fred34 1 year ago | 482 comments

Blog post explaining why the author maintains a 2008 ThinkPad, using Taleb's ideas of fragility, robustness, and the Lindy Effect to compare it with a 2021 laptop.

Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230(github.com)

976 points by xairy 1 year ago | 501 comments

GitHub repository by xairy with tools and firmware dumps for controlling the webcam LED on a ThinkPad X230, showing it can be disabled while recording.

How to build a printer(nishantjosh.dev)

415 points by cat-whisperer 1 month ago | 91 comments

A personal blog post about hacking the programmable Xteink X3 e-ink reader with custom CrossPoint firmware features and building a way to send content to it.

ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22(os2museum.com)

33 points by userbinator 6 days ago | 5 comments

OS/2 Museum blog post on fixing a ThinkPad 750C I9990303 error by patching IBM's BIOS flash utility to bypass power management checks and reflash corrupted firmware.

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)(jordemort.dev)

325 points by goodburb 1 year ago | 130 comments

A blog post by Jordan Webb investigating, detective-style, why Android cannot use USB CDC Ethernet adapters despite supporting USB ethernet.

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise(danielmangum.com)

47 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | 28 comments

Blog post explaining why microcontroller-based IoT devices are likely unaffected by the eMudhra intermediate CA private key compromise, due to minimal pinned root CA bundles.