I remember getting to the midpoint and thinking "Man, all of these PowerPC-isms really takes me back to the Wii modding days!".
Imagine my face when I read this line: "m1n1 traces its past to mini, which is a minimal environment that I wrote for the Nintendo Wii’s security CPU".
As if there was any doubt: Hardware reverse engineers are a very special breed of dedicated people. There aren't many of them, but those that are around tend to stay around!
Yeah marcan helped hack the Nintendo Wii. See his original talk at 25C3 here [1].
The other guy in the talk [1] is the late Ben 'bushing' Byer. I only knew him from his online work, but it's still very sad that he passed away in 2016 [2]. I'm sure if he was still alive, he'd also continue to be doing great reverse engineering work!
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I remember getting to the midpoint and thinking "Man, all of these PowerPC-isms really takes me back to the Wii modding days!".
Imagine my face when I read this line: "m1n1 traces its past to mini, which is a minimal environment that I wrote for the Nintendo Wii’s security CPU".
As if there was any doubt: Hardware reverse engineers are a very special breed of dedicated people. There aren't many of them, but those that are around tend to stay around!
Yeah marcan helped hack the Nintendo Wii. See his original talk at 25C3 here [1].
The other guy in the talk [1] is the late Ben 'bushing' Byer. I only knew him from his online work, but it's still very sad that he passed away in 2016 [2]. I'm sure if he was still alive, he'd also continue to be doing great reverse engineering work!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyVuY_S5VcI
[2] https://fail0verflow.com/ben