I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2M [video]

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Post by intc » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 2:56 AM UTC

I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2M [video]
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Post by magicjosh » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

Inspired watching this. Loved the line of code that allowed them to extract the memory. Thanks for sharing.

If you liked Joe, check out his open source hardware projects on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/grand-idea-studio

Looks like he has a vacuum tube night light launching soon.

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Post by znq » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 7:27 AM UTC

I wish more people would see this HN thread and video. This is a truly amazing and well produced hobby video.

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Post by ostenning » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 10:07 AM UTC

Loved this video, but I wonder why he thought lights that generally would operate on 50/60Hz would induce a 1kHz pulse signal into his circuit. He seemed too smart for that conclusion, for dramatic effect perhaps?

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Post by capableweb » Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

znq wrote: post #3

I wish more people would see this HN thread and video. This is a truly amazing and well produced hobby video.

I'm interested in the topic, but not interested enough to suffer through a 32 minute long video that could instead be an article with pictures that I could read through faster and refer back to.

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Post by python273 » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:45 AM UTC

ostenning wrote: post #4

Loved this video, but I wonder why he thought lights that generally would operate on 50/60Hz would induce a 1kHz pulse signal into his circuit. He seemed too smart for that conclusion, for dramatic effect perhaps?

LED lights and power supplies might have higher frequency noise, so that wasn't that unreasonable to think the lights might be the source.

Re: I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2M [video]

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Post by rasz » Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

ostenning wrote: post #4

Loved this video, but I wonder why he thought lights that generally would operate on 50/60Hz would induce a 1kHz pulse signal into his circuit. He seemed too smart for that conclusion, for dramatic effect perhaps?

EEVblog - LED Panel Lighting Switching Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_sxMxUWeU at 3 minutes

LED lights RF interference fix, for education only Paul k8IO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUgCM6cCUj0