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This is a repost of the 38C3 talk by Aedan Cullen:

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-hacking-the-rp2350

Aedan references a presentation earlier on Day 1 of 38C3 about hardware fault injection of the ACE3 USB-C controller in Apple hardware: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-ace-up-the-sleeve-hacking-into-a...

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Aedan's talk was impressive enough, and for sure he got lucky with the 3's, but that second talk is a mind blowing level of commitment and makes me appreciate even more just how much work went into Asahi linux I'm running and similar reverse engineering projects. I got stuck on just some simple audio routing on the pinePhone SoC, and this inspires me to go back and spend some more time on it. It seems the industry solution is to iterate fast on this stuff, i.e. before we get time to fully understand it. When I think how long we had to play around with the Z80 and 68000 chips, and now they are popping out new chips each year, and more and more of it custom silicon. I wonder what hardware designs we'd have if we were in a cooperative market vs walled-garden competitive one.

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