I'm George, a forensic security researcher working mainly on recovery from NAND devices, plus whatever else ends up on the bench.
This is where I write up my own projects , the parts that worked, and the two weeks of debugging that came first. Everything here is done on my own kit, at my own expense, and I'd rather show the dead ends than pretend they didn't happen.
Wearing NAND controllers like a muppet.
Data recovery straight into your eyeballs
Building datarecoverywiki.com , a free, open body of knowledge on physical data recovery , plus what it cost me and why I nearly stopped.
How to set up a puppet show and not get caught
Building a sock puppet account that holds up: the ethics first, then the email, the cookies, the personality and the add-ons that stop it falling over.
Librebooting an X220 into a secure machine
Flashing Libreboot onto a ThinkPad X220, choosing an opsec-aware OS to sit on top, and the tooling that makes the result usable day to day.
How I dumped a Belkin router's firmware
A £10 router, a Bus Pirate, two weeks of firmware trouble, and a Linux 2.4.18 kernel with a decade-old RCE still sitting in it.
Built up slowly, as and when I can afford it. Everything in the write-ups is done on this.
| Optics | Optical microscope, micromanipulator |
|---|---|
| Rework | Hot air, soldering iron, microsoldering tips, BGA tools |
| Measurement | Logic analyser, multimeter, bench PSU |
| Clean | Ultrasonic cleaner, laminar flow hood |
| Fabrication | 3D printer, diode laser engraver, Dremel |
| Software | flashrom, ImHex, IDA Pro, Wireshark, KiCad, FreeCAD, Orca Slicer |
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