Interesting talks from the Chaos Communication Congress

[Firefox]

The Ultimate Galaksija Talk [29C3]
Very detailed description of a native Yugoslavian home computer from the 80s that was similar to a ZX81 but perhaps a bit better (certainly in the keyboard area!) It even drills down to exactly how the video generation and tape load/save system work.
Despite the detail the speaker moves on at a fair clip and it doesn't get boring.


Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation [29C3]
Reverse-engineering and hacking Tamagotchis, focusing on the latest ones that have clip-on expansion-pack figures.



Yak's already posted this one on C64 demo making in the Youtube thread:

Behind the scenes of a C64 demo [28C3]



Here's the list (which I've barely begun to look through, so post any good ones you find!)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU ... 6XdQwn8gSg

[randomdude]

It's more security-related than yours, but I really enjoyed 'creating a USB thumbdrive from scratch'-



(do we have many computer-security oriented members here..?)

[Istar]

*raises hand*

(Not exclusively what I do, but to do what I do I have to keep abreast of security stuff)

[t0ne]

Yea me too, FWIW I'm a CISSP and CEH but I'm doing way more coding than security work at the moment.

[Malf]

Product dev at a company that is very much in the computer security space here.

[Dio]

I also tend to be the one wearing the security hat in our team (and, indeed, across a bit more of the company too) having dabbled in the dark side in my younger days and kept up my reading on the topic.

It's quite scary how hard people seem to find safe file and string handling code. Whenever a review comes in manipulating that stuff, I know I'm going to be pointing out a dozen small things and at least two major cockups.

[failrate]

I watched the Tomagatchi one the other day. While the tech behind the toys isn't great, she did an excellent job of breaking down her process for hardware hacking. She was very thorough and described her steps in a very clear manner.

[gravy]

It's more security-related than yours, but I really enjoyed 'creating a USB thumbdrive from scratch'-



(do we have many computer-security oriented members here..?)

Really enjoyed that. It's amazingly scary that there's an absolute and exploitable trust by OSes to USB devices. It's really like the old days internet worms.

[Firefox]

*** bump ***

Further progress in hacking Tamagotchis, plus a devkit!

[Firefox]

*** bump ***

Nice talk about the Gameboy [Color], with lots of juicy details of the internals.

[Firefox]

34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
Very comprehensive-but-fast talk that covers everything from the logic chips up to the spacecraft rendezvous algorithms!


34C3 - Console Security - Switch
Really good talk about the hardware, operating system, and how they cracked it.

[Firefox]

34C3 - The Internet in Cuba: A Story of Community Resilience
Internet access in Cuba is shitty and expensive (even by European standards). The official ways to get online are discussed, but much more interesting are the alternatives cooked up by ordinary Cubans - from sneakernets to city-wide community LANs.

[Firefox]

35C3 - Viva la Vita Vida - Hacking the most secure handheld console
Really enjoyable talk about the software and hardware techniques used to break the remaining security on the Vita.



https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9364-viva_la_vita_vida

[Firefox]

35C3 - Modchips of the State - Hardware implants in the supply-chain
Following the recent flap over server motherboards allegedly being covertly modified to circumvent security, a discussion of the issues and a proof-of-concept demo.



https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9597-modchips_of_the_state

[WiteWulf]

mm, thanks for reminding me about the Vita one. Need to find time to watch that. Looks like we'll have proper cfw for that by the end of the year, now.

*edit* as an aside, I noticed our local Cex has reduced the price on all its Vitas and memory cards recently, so if you're looking to pick one up now's the time