Recycling Via Code Execution
Track one is on the 2nd floor of Jupiter NEXT
Many devices are brought into this world with very cool hardware and sleek design, but with very poor or limited software. Soon they are obsoleted and forgotten by the manufacturer and would be destined for a landfill.
Gaining code execution on an inaccessible device breathes new life into it. By gaining access, a hobbyist can repurpose it for their own projects while benefiting from robustness and usually a nice form factor.
We will do a case study of the whys and the hows of breaking, reverse engineering, and repurposing a couple of devices including a car infotainment system, an unusual camera, and an air quality monitor.
About the Speaker
Aleksandar Nikolic is a security researcher with a primary focus on finding memory corruption vulnerabilities. For both fun and work, Aleksandar has performed reverse engineering, fuzzing, and code auditing on dozens of projects written in C and C++.
In his spare time he likes to tinker with devices around him and has previously published write-ups of his reverse engineering efforts of useless cameras, obsolete car systems, and x-ray imaging.