Weekly thread to discuss whatever you’re working on, big or small, at work or in your free time.

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    7 months ago

    I wanted to do red teaming when I was 18/19, but it is so niche that I don’t think I can get my foot in the door. I’m a hardware nerd and the past several months I have also started looking at overlooked protocols. I do plan on getting into more embedded and designing my own boards. Thing is, hardware is very overlooked which I feel like nobody is taking it serious enough. I still have an interest in the tech industry, but kind of just letting life do its thing and wherever I end up, I end up there.

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      7 months ago

      If you would like to get a foot in the door, let me know and we can see if it makes sense. I might be able to help you get an interview. It’s kind of late for our internships this summer, but we do have openings periodically, and I think you’d benefit from our engineering-focused interviews. Do you like reverse engineering hardware? Rather, the opposite of design. Discovery.

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        7 months ago

        You mean taking hardware apart or reverse engineering the software/firmware? Been planning on getting into reverse engineering firmware, but I take hardware apart a lot to figure out how they work because most of the time I can build something better and cheaper.

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          7 months ago

          Both. As I’m sure you know, firmware and hardware are intimately related. We tend to do more software, but it depends on the project. I work for a small company, so we have to make do—I don’t think we have any purely software or hardware people. Understanding is the first step to exploitation.

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            7 months ago

            Yeah. Life keeps getting in the way, but I’ve been having plans to at least start emulating firmware with QEMU and poke around a bunch of publicly available firmware. The biggest problem I do see with the learning curve is the machine language, but I don’t see it being too much of trouble once I grasp the basics enough to get a better idea what is going on. Finally got around to getting qemu up and running, so will try to get started with firmware once I get other more important things taken care of first.

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              7 months ago

              I’m a QEMU developer also. Let me know if you have any questions!