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Gareth Branwyn / 2:55 pm Tue, May 26, 2020

Mad genius builds robotic arm to control synth with Nintendo Power Glove

You know how in movies where there's a mad genius tech-wizard/hacker (often a precocious teen) who can make the most fantastical creations with seemingly no effort? It's such a great fantasy with little analogue in the real world. Sam Battle, he of Look Mum No Computer strikes me as a character from one of those […]
Cory Doctorow / 9:27 am Fri, Sep 8, 2017

In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay

In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at the first MIT Media Lab Forbidden Research conference; a little over a year later, they have published an extensive scholarly paper laying out the problems of detecting and interdicting malware in a mobile device, and presenting a […]
Cory Doctorow / 7:29 am Thu, Mar 9, 2017

Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force "Hardware Hacker" book is finally in print!

Last December, I published my review of Andrew "bunnie" Huang's astoundingly great book The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware — without realizing that the book's release had been delayed because the published decided to do some very fancy and cool stuff with the printing process.
Cory Doctorow / 4:46 am Fri, Dec 30, 2016

The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force on hardware hacking, reverse engineering, China, manufacturing, innovation and biohacking

I've been writing about genius hardware hackers Andrew "bunnie" Huang since 2003, when MIT hung him out to dry over his book explaining how he hacked the original Xbox; the book he wrote about that hack has become a significant engineering classic, and his own life has taken a thousand odd turns that we've chronicled here as he's founded companies, hacked hardware, become a China manufacturing guru, and sued the US government over the anti-hacking provisions of the DMCA.
Cory Doctorow / 5:43 am Tue, Nov 22, 2016

Even if you've ripped out your laptop's mic, hackers can listen in through your headphones

Realtek's audio chips — found in Macs and many PCs — can repurpose your laptop's headphone jack to serve as a mic jack, and capture audio through your headphones.