078 - Séance Mode - An Interview with Michael Ossmann

078 - Séance Mode - An Interview with Michael Ossmann

Michael Ossmann(@mossmann@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@mossmann]) from Great Scott Gadgets [https://greatscottgadgets.com/] joins us to chat about HackRF Pro [https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/pro/], Cynthion, and more! Michael previously joined us on Episode 57 [https://unnamedre.com/episode/57].Here's a list of things we talked about: * HackRF Pro [https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/pro/] Software Defined Radio * Cynthion [https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion/] * Beagle480 [https://www.totalphase.com/products/beagle-usb480/] USB Analyzer * Reverse-engineering VNA ECal Interface with Cynthion [https://greatscottgadgets.com/2024/11-13-reverse-engineering-a-vna-ecal-interface-with-cynthion/] * GreatFET One [https://greatscottgadgets.com/greatfet/one/] * Facedancer [https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/facedancer] * Smoocon Presentation - Building and Hacking USB with FPGA [https://archive.org/details/shmoocon2025/ShmooCon2025-Michael+Ossmann-Building+and+Hacking+USB+with+FPGAs.mp4] * Packetry [https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/packetry] * Rust [https://rust-lang.org/] * Embassy.dev [https://embassy.dev/] - Rust embedded framework * RTT [https://www.segger.com/products/debug-probes/j-link/technology/about-real-time-transfer/] * Episode 64 with Nika/ic3qu33n on MS-DOS Malware [https://unnamedre.com/episode/64] * Framed.wtf [https://framed.wtf] * Geoguessr [https://www.geoguessr.com/] * Rainbolt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rainbolt] * ESPN8 - The Ocho [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN8_The_Ocho] * Patti Labelle at the christmas tree lighting ceremony [https://youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?si=7hbHsFWBGDvODsGo] * Italian Research Paper on HackRF for Time Transfer Applications [https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13596] * Receiving WWVB with HackRF Pro [https://greatscottgadgets.com/2025/10-31-receiving-wwvb-with-hackrf-pro/] * Longitude Book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)] * A Brief History of Timekeeping book [https://benbellabooks.com/shop/a-brief-history-of-timekeeping/] * Taskmaster TV Show [https://www.youtube.com/c/Taskmaster] * https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/07/17/quantum-computers-still-cant-factor-as-well-as-an-abacus/1438153 [https://www.theregister.com/security/2025/07/17/quantum-computers-still-cant-factor-as-well-as-an-abacus/1438153] * Everdell Board Game [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199792/everdell] * Wingspan Board Game [https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/] * Terraforming Mars Board Game [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167791/terraforming-mars] * Ark Nova Board Game [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342942/ark-nova] * Pandemic Board Game [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic] * Pandemic Legacy Season 1 [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1] * Hackaday Supercon Talk - Simple RF Circuit Design [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnRn3Kn_aXg] * TI Application Note on Edge Rate Accelerators [https://www.ti.com/lit/an/scea131/scea131.pdf] * Saleae Logic MSO [https://www.saleae.com/logic-mso] * SDR with HackRF Training Series Videos [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeSN14JUYU&list=PLu0BPYzTjiHru1KmPThmbY-8rRm3EWvUQ] * EMFCamp [https://www.emfcamp.org/] Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us online at unnamedre.com [http://unnamedre.com] or email us at show@unnamedre.com [show@unnamedre.com]. Music by TeknoAxe [http://www.teknoaxe.com] (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe [http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe])

077 - The Beatbox Diversion

Jen and Alvaro catch up on 2025. Here are some links to the things we talked about: * Wing - Dopamine [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm9Ec] * Enshittification [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification] * California Right to Repair [https://bhgs.dca.ca.gov/forms_pubs/sb_244_industry_advisory_english.pdf] * RECESSIM [https://www.youtube.com/@recessim] * 404 Media [https://www.404media.co/] * iFixit Repair App [https://www.ifixit.com/go/app] * iPhone Electrically Released Adhesive [https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/hands-on-with-new-iphones-electrically-released-adhesive/] * Anna's Archive Scraped 300TB from Spotify [https://lambgoat.com/news/51012/spotify-under-attack-by-annas-archive-as-they-scraped-300tb-of-datamusic-from-the-platform/] * Benn Jordan Streaming Royalties Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVXfcIb3OKo&t=7s] * Jon GainSec Gaines: https://gainsec.com [https://gainsec.com] * Flock videos * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY] * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo] * Benn Jordan "I Saved a PNG Image to a Bird" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo] * 404 Media Flock Article [https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/] * Debugging Rules Book [https://debuggingrules.com/about-the-book/] * Julia Evan's Pocket Guide to Debugging [https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/] * Dungeon Crawler Carl [https://mattdinniman.com/] * Molly White [https://www.mollywhite.net/] * https://soundbooththeater.com/ [https://soundbooththeater.com/] * Dennis E. Taylor's thoughts on Audible exclusives [http://dennisetaylor.org/wheres-the-whatever-version/] * https://thestorygraph.com/ [https://thestorygraph.com/] * Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/] * LaurieWired Ghidra MCP Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vQapLAW88] (github repo [https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP]) * Alvaro's J-Link Post [https://alvarop.com/2025/09/j-link-compact-usb-c-issues/] * https://www.shodan.io/ [https://www.shodan.io/] Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show [https://twitter.com/unnamed_show], or email us at show@unnamedre.com [show@unnamedre.com]. Music by TeknoAxe [http://www.teknoaxe.com] (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe [http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe])

076 - Living In A Vast World of Craziness

An Interview With Dan Walters Dan Walters/Bytetinker [http://bytetinker.net] joins us after a long email chain to find a time. You'll understand why it was so hard in the interview. Jen met Dan at cyphercon.com [http://cyphercon.com] where he runs an ISP hacking village/ward. We covered a lot of stuff at various levels of the OSI stack up. Here's just a short list of terms that came up: * DOCSIS [https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/05/docsis-introduction/] * Quadrature_amplitude_modulation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation] * Some of the exploits we covered were part of Cable Haunt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Haunt]. While Dan for good reason did not provide explicit sites to get started with, you may have luck with archive.org [http://archive.org] Want to try this for yourself but still waiting for your federal funding to come in? cyphercon.com [http://cyphercon.com] 2026 is happening and you can do this much more cheaply. It's happening April 1 & 2. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show [https://twitter.com/unnamed_show], or email us at show@unnamedre.com [show@unnamedre.com]. Music by TeknoAxe [http://www.teknoaxe.com] (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe [http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe])

075 - Teleporting All Over The Timeline

We talked to Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and how it became the DeskThing [https://deskthing.app/about]. You can find Nathan on his personal site [https://itsriprod.com] and on LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com/in/nathan-emerick]. You can get more info on DeskThing in various places. There's a nice timeline of events on the DeskThing website [https://deskthing.app/showcase/when], the DeskThing YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@deskthing], subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/DeskThing/], and Discord [https://deskthing.app/discord]. Links to some other things we talked about: * Zadig [https://zadig.akeo.ie/] * https://tailwindcss.com/ [https://tailwindcss.com/] * https://www.typescriptlang.org/ [https://www.typescriptlang.org/] * https://react.dev/ [https://react.dev/] Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on mastodon @unnamedre [https://infosec.exchange/@unnamedre], bluesky @unnamedre.com [https://bsky.app/profile/unnamedre.com], or email us at show@unnamedre.com [show@unnamedre.com]. Music by TeknoAxe [http://www.teknoaxe.com] (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe [http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe])

074 - This Coconut Won't Open

Jen and Alvaro talked to Noah Holland & Joshua Stiebel about electronic lock reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the things we talked about: * https://cyphercon.com/ [https://cyphercon.com/] * https://www.secretcon.com/ [https://www.secretcon.com/] * MTU Red Team [https://www.involvement.mtu.edu/organization/RedTeam] * https://unsaflok.com/ [https://unsaflok.com/] * Unsaflock DEFCON Talk [https://youtu.be/4cx0RUV7i0s?si=AYMmqB-NICtBulmF] * https://www.dormakaba.com [https://www.dormakaba.com] * https://proxmark.com/ [https://proxmark.com/] * Iceman Fork - https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3 [https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3] * https://nmap.org/ [https://nmap.org/] * https://flipperzero.one/ [https://flipperzero.one/] * https://lab401.com/products/chameleon-ultra [https://lab401.com/products/chameleon-ultra] Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show [https://twitter.com/unnamed_show], or email us at show@unnamedre.com [show@unnamedre.com]. Music by TeknoAxe [http://www.teknoaxe.com] (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe [http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe])