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Hardware Hacking Guide — Citizen Engineer

Posted by Soulskill on from the so-i-rewired-it dept.

Solderingfool writes "MAKE Magazine's Phil Torrone and open source hardware hacker Ladyada from Adafruit Industries have a new video series called 'Citizen Engineer.' In the first video they show how a SIM card works, then build a SIM card reader which could be used to clone a SIM card. They also show how to use an old payphone as a regular home phone, later with coins, and for their final hack — how to 'Redbox' it. They released all the projects as open source, and the video is well produced."

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  1. Re:How long will it take for the FBI to ride? by VoyagerRadio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    FBI, Schmeff-Bee-Aii. I hope they get Woz on their series, doing his thing: phone hacking or whatever. The stuff he used to do, back in the day, applied to today's phone technology. VoIP spoofing? (Somebody help me out here: what was the hack that Woz is known for -- the phone hack, that is?)

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    Harold
  2. Re:How long will it take for the FBI to ride? by Mike+McTernan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well they did brute force the secret key (Ki) from their SIM using the reader they build, but as they said, newer SIMs will detect the high number of requests and self-destruct. Additionally this was a 5V SIM reader, and many modern SIMs are 3V in anycase.

    The only thing that worried me in the video was the quality of the soldering!

    Mike

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