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Robin Bradshaw

@en4rab.bsky.social

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Cybersecurity and hardware hacking

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Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · Jul 22

Since Bitlocker has suddenly become very popular I thought I would publish some scripts I made to help with recovering the FVEK when sniffing the keys from a TPM en4rab.github.io/posts/Sniffi...

I Hacked BitLocker in 25 Seconds With This Soldering Iron and the Power of Friendship

en4rab.github.io

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 22h

So is localisation, here in the uk that would be an attempt at preventing discussion about smoking. I hope they have added fanny to their rude words list too because that means something different here too

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 1d

In retrospect looking for command injection on a zte MF971V by putting ;reboot; on the end of values might not have been the best idea as its now reboting every 40 seconds or so and i cant connect to the wifi.
Have ordered another to try ;telnetd; instead

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

y2038 progress retr0.id/stuff/2038/

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair it is a little hard to reuse GPU's that have been incinerated in a fire (look at the rusty rack cabinets) but im sure someone will still try selling them on ebay as lightly used.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 4d

An X-ray of a bag of M and M's makes a very pleasing pattern

X-ray of a bag of M and M's making a pleasing pattern of overlapping circles which are whiter where they overlap like a venn diagram of M and M's

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 5d

Dont just dismantle the gate, forfeit the house and knock it down so it doesn't happen again.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 5d

The kinder eggs came out alot more playmobil mafia disposing of bodies in barrels than I thought it would

X-ray of a 3 pack of kinder eggs showing a blury image of 3 playmobil characters stuffed in the capsule like bodies in barrels

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 5d

Bing just cant get any love

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 6d

The IAEA incident reports are amazing bedtime reading each one is a little horror story www.iaea.org/publications...

Publications advanced search | IAEA

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 6d

www.kompas.id/artikel/en-k...

Cesium-137 Radiation Decontamination in Cikande from the Iron Smelting Plant

Cesium-137 contamination is thought to have originated from the iron smelting process, but the source of this radioactive material is still being investigated, and is suspected to be imported.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 6d

Never! oembios.bin is the right way to steal XP! 😂

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 6d

Have a look at robot Sumo there is no human in the loop there www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-z...

ROBOT WAR 2017 Japan vs UK - Fastest robot war ever !!! In slow motion.

YouTube video by Universal TV

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Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 6d

I think a Caramelldansen version would be perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67Z...

Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen (Official English Version)

YouTube video by Caramella Girls

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Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 9d

Rickroll them

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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants @htmx.org · 9d

in addition to coining the terms hypertext & hypermedia, Ted Nelson also coined the term "clanker" *in context* over half a century ago and i am LOSING MY MIND

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 9d

Hilariously some AMI aptio UEFI didnt hide the password storage variable from the OS nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/11049...

Matthew Garrett (@[email protected])

Hey uh quick test do any of you have a system where /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/AMITSESetup-c811fa38-42c8-4579-a9bb-60e94eddfb34 exists and if so can you hexdump it, set an admin password in your firmwa...

nondeterministic.computer

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 9d

I believe some used the EC as a secure element as you have found. I did look briefly at another bios hacking forum and it looked like for some they were maybe making a frankensteind uefi using a signed module from a different model to allow rewriting the password but i didnt look further.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 9d

For some AMI aptio based machines you can dump the flash and null out where the password is. gist.github.com/en4rab/55088...

Recovering the BIOS password from a Panasonic CF-U1 mk2 (AMI Aptio UEFI)

Recovering the BIOS password from a Panasonic CF-U1 mk2 (AMI Aptio UEFI) - CF-U1-BIOS.md

gist.github.com

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 10d

Only after it was exposed by the Snowden leaks, if it hadn't been there is nothing to suggest it would not have continued in secret indefinitely en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

Tempora - Wikipedia

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Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 10d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4551...

Edward Snowden surveillance powers ruled unlawful

The UK's bulk surveillance exposed by the whistleblower are found to be illegal.

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 10d

"there is a US law that states only dead people can be put on coins."

Obviously the Department of the Treasury know something we don't

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 11d

Not your IP but the SSID's and MAC addresses of the wifi access points your phone can see. This picture is from WIGLE showing a random street in Bristol if i can see those networks and using the various signal strengths of each you can attempt to triangulate where the phone is.

Screenshot from WIGLE.net of wine street in bristol

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 12d

I had an esp32 supermini with flaky WiFi, I noticed it worked when I touched the antenna so I fixed it with a blob of blu-tac as a simulated finger

An esp32 supermini with a blob of blu tac on the antenna to make WiFi work

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 12d

I think the situation is deserving enough to hunt them down and send them an I told you so letter 🤣

Robin Bradshaw @en4rab.bsky.social · 12d

Why do these articles always blame minimum wage and not say rising house prices since everyone has to live somewhere? Perhaps we could make coffee cheaper by building more houses and driving the price down.