Skip to content

Comment on USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style

Comments

I recently got a teensy 2.0 for rooting my chromecast, (which it does, roughly by appearing to chain 32 usb hubs, better description at https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2014/hubcap-chromecast-root-pt... )

They are nifty little dev boards, as you can pretend to be a variety of different devices, but the real benefit in my mind is the ease at which you can use the solder pads to build a device and connect it to usb. YOu can dump roms.

The teensy 3.0 is a 32 bit arm processor and has extra ram and flash memory, which is certainly an improvement over the 8 bit avr processor... that said the teensy 2.0 or 2.0++ might be better if you have arduino experience. Both are great boards to play around with, and I expect lots more exploits based around pretending to be various usb devices.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.