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29C3: Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation (EN)

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  • Presented by Natalie Silvanovich, security researcher

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SecurityHardwareReverse engineeringExploits and vulnerabilitiesEmbedded systems

Natalie Silvanovich details her attempts to reverse engineer and hack Tamagotchi virtual pets through IR interfaces, ROM dumping, and hardware analysis.

Speaker: Natalie Silvanovich You might remember Tamagotchi virtual pets from the 1990's. These toys are still around and just as demanding as ever! This talk covers my attempts to hack the latest Tamagotchis. Starting with the IR interface, and moving down into the hardware, this presentation will discuss techniques for reverse engineering a device with limited inputs, computing power and debugging capabilities. Recent Tamagotchis are more than just pets. They can talk to their friends over IR, support games on external ROMs and store generations worth of information about their ancestors. This talk goes through the different ways Tamagotchis can be tampered with through these channels, including making Tamagotchis rich and happy over IR, altering their states in persistent memory and writing custom games. It also goes through attempts to dump the Tamagotchi's code from ROM. For more information visit: bit.ly/29C3_information To download the video visit: bit.ly/29C3_videos Playlist 28C3: bit.ly/29C3_playlist

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and educational case study in hardware reverse engineering and hacking.

u/burongtalangkain r/embedded • Recommends

What have you reversed-engineer so far? I just watched Natalie Silvanovitch's talk about how she reversed engineer tamagotchis just for fun (and knowing more about the meaning of a tama's life). I thought I got hooked with the fun of reverse engineering a product. Also, Vector the robot has been reversed-engineer! Here is the project link. Can you share your experiences on reverse engineering? Do you also know more reverse engineering projects, pending or finished? I would love to compile a list.
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