Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
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Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#2I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#3I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
huh, iirc this already exists long before LLM
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#4I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
huh, iirc this already exists long before LLM
It required a lot of manual work and for large apps like Minecraft it took teams of people to figure out what the symbol names should be slowly contributing a little bit every day.
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#5I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
huh, iirc this already exists long before LLM
Claude is quite skilled at using Ghidra, for example.
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#6I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
Interesting, I'd have assumed the guardrails would disallow them from doing anything like that, regardless of legality. Do you need to "convince" it to do it or no questions asked?
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#7The same is true for iPhone apps (.ipa files). You can just unzip them.
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#8I've found that Claude Code works well at reversing java applications. Even if it is fully obfuscated claude can restore sensible names for everything and understand how it all works and answer questions about what it is doing.
Interesting, I'd have assumed the guardrails would disallow them from doing anything like that, regardless of legality. Do you need to "convince" it to do it or no questions asked?
It is no questions asked. Even if you are reversing things like anticheats (I wanted to know the privacy implications of running the anticheat modules).
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#9The same is true for iPhone apps (.ipa files). You can just unzip them.
For many things. Change .epub to .zip for example, you get html text and jpg images
Re: Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]
#10What a coincidence, I just got an email announcing that Breville intend to orphan my Joule sous vide stick: the existing app will stop working, the new app is only available the US and Canada and in parts of Europe.
Live in another country? You're s.o.l., it wasn't officially sold there. You need a new account as well, hope you like the TOS.
All of this for a device whose core functionality -- setting a target temperature, getting the current temperature and checking for error states -- is both trivial and has no inherent need for internet connectivity.
I suppose I should be grateful they're still supporting a device that's like 10 years old. Caveat emptor (I got it as a gift).
https://community.chefsteps.com/discussion/78615/joule-sous-...