A modern tale of blinkenlights by Damien Cauquil ( @virtualabs ) & Thomas Cougnard ( @Xilokar ) #firmware #smart #hardware #bluetooth #whad #devices #wireless #optical #led #data #leakage #equipments [ https://blog.quarkslab.com/modern-tale-blinkenlights.html ] #informatique ( via https://infosec.exchange/@quarkslab )
« These LEDs were often called blinkenlights, a name coming from an old WWII joke, and most of them were simply driven by the transmit & receive data lines of such equipment. »
A modern tale of blinkenlights - Quarkslab's blog
This blog post demonstrates how a modern variant of an hardware attack found in the 2000's allowed the extraction of a €12 smartwatch's firmware using only cheap and robust hardware. Damien and Thomas (introduced later in this post) gave a talk on this subject at this year's leHACK edition in Paris.





