Reverse Engineering

  1. She Found a Bricked Cricut in E-Waste and Unlocked It with a $1 Raspberry Pi Chip

    Cricut remotely deactivates machines — for warranty replacements, for on-selling, sometimes just for loaning to a friend. When Australian hacker xssfox found a locked …

    Security
  2. Claude Code Wrote a macOS Driver for an HP Printer That Never Had One: A 4-Hour Reverse-Engineering Odyssey

    The HP Laser 1008a is a rebadged Samsung host-based printer that speaks a proprietary raster language (SPL3), ships no macOS driver, and supports no AirPrint. In one …

    AI