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Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope (opens in new tab)

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The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd (opens in new tab)

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA (opens in new tab)

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Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987) (opens in new tab)

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Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit (opens in new tab)

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A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data (opens in new tab)

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Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples (opens in new tab)

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Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz (opens in new tab)

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Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read (opens in new tab)

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*bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images (opens in new tab)

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Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows (opens in new tab)

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Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope (opens in new tab)

The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd (opens in new tab)

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA (opens in new tab)

Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987) (opens in new tab)

Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit (opens in new tab)

A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data (opens in new tab)

Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples (opens in new tab)

Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz (opens in new tab)

Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read (opens in new tab)

*bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images (opens in new tab)

Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows (opens in new tab)

Recent submissions

Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope (opens in new tab)

The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd (opens in new tab)

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA (opens in new tab)

Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987) (opens in new tab)

Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit (opens in new tab)

A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data (opens in new tab)

Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples (opens in new tab)

Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz (opens in new tab)

Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read (opens in new tab)

*bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images (opens in new tab)

Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows (opens in new tab)