Gabriele Biondo2h ago

Reverse Engineering or Necromancy? 🧟‍♂️⚖️

What do you do when the company goes dark, the app vanishes from the App Store, and your "smart" scale becomes a 100€ paperweight?

You reverse it.

I’m starting a new series on ByteArchitect about bringing the QardioBase2 back to life. No ChatGPT-farts here—just raw bluetoothd logs, GATT discovery, and the sad sight of a backend that keeps saying "cancelled."

In this first part:
- Sniffing BLE traffic on iOS (without a jailbreak)
- Mapping proprietary GATT services & characteristics
- Realizing the servers are officially dead (RIP Qardio)

If you despise planned obsolescence as much as I do, join me in this "zombie" recovery:

https://bytearchitect.io/security-reversing/Reverse-with-me-Qardio-necromancy/

#ReverseEngineering #Infosec #BLE #iOS #HardwareHacking #Obsolescence #CyberSecurity #GATT #Necromancy

The Japan TimesFeb 2
Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
The 10 best and worst U.S. foreign policy decisions

America was at its best whenever it was open to the world and engaged with it, and at its worst when it became closed.

The Japan Times
Saxafi MediaJan 23

Why #Mogadishu cannot cancel @DP_World’s #Berbera deal. A legal deep dive into #GATT records, @wto rules, & estoppel shows how #Somaliland’s trade autonomy shields the #BerberaPort from #Somalia’s withdrawal threats.

https://saxafimedia.com/dp-world-berbera-deal-legal-mogadishu-withdrawal/

DP World’s Berbera Deal: The Legal Shield Against Mogadishu’s Withdrawal | Saxafi Media

This article, “DP World’s Berbera Deal: The Legal Shield against Mogadishu’s Withdrawal,” argues that DP World's deal in Berbera, Somaliland, is legally protected from Somalia's attempts to withdraw agreements because of Somaliland's unique status.

SaxafiMedia
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOct 30
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1947, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (#GATT) treaty was signed in Geneva, Switzerland. The direct predecessor to the #WTO, it was meant to ease international #trade barriers and, before the Trump era, had succeeded in greatly lowering #tariffs.
bsmall2Feb 26, 2025
> .. GATT and NAFTA ought to be called “investor rights agreements,” not “free trade agreements.” One of their main purposes is to extend the ability of corporations to carry out market-distorting operations internally. So when people like Anthony Lake talk about enlarging market democracy, he’s enlarging something, but it’s not markets and it’s not democracy. #NoamChomsky #FreeTrade #InvestorsRights #MarketDemocracy #NAFTA #GATT #FreeTradeAgreements
https://1motorcyclist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/noam-chomsky-2011-how-the-world-works.pdf
rkslp.orgFeb 10, 2025
Jetzt geht es ja wieder um #Zölle wie vor 8 Jahren: #GATT ließ und auch WTO noch, soweit ich weiß -sonst wärs schlecht-, das Recht Maßnahmen gegen Handelsungleichgewichte zu erlassen. Einige Staaten haben durch ihre Lage usw. einen natürlichen Standort-Vorteil. Deutschland, vor allem auch China.
Liberal CurrentsDec 13, 2024
"Was there something that the creators of the #IMF and #GATT learned about why international cooperation was essential, and what could help it succeed, that we have since forgotten?" (from 2019) https://www.liberalcurrents.com/economic-cooperation-in-furtherance-of-peace-lessons-from-the-postwar-era/
Economic Cooperation in Furtherance of Peace: Lessons from the Postwar Era

During and after World War II the architects of the economic institutions of the liberal international order articulated a compelling rationale for the structure and rules of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In a recent article I identified a common set of

Liberal Currents
JonAug 28, 2024
Where does an #electronics wannabe go to understand what Nordic #UART (NUS) and #Bluetooth Mesh are and can do? I have an idea for what I want to do, but I lack all the practical electronics, SoC, firmware, #GATT type knowledge to even know where or how to start.
AlexAug 11, 2024
I run into a rabbit hole reading up the #bluetooth #gatt specifications. I just want a generic number characteristic that can carry the raw usecs pulse delay so something else can correct for air-pressure if it knows it.
Alfred M. SzmidtMay 5, 2024
@[email protected] GOTO ALL THE THINGS!! #GATT !