Sometimes, security mechanisms can be bypassed if you just do things slightly out of the ordinary. For instance, readout protection on microcontrollers is a given nowadays, to the point where it’s ...

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There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of the list here. [eWastelander] recently got ...

For our list today, the technology at hand ranges from as recent as 2015 all the way back to the early 80s, making the concept of hacking vastly variable in the ways it is presented. As coding is much ...