Trammell Hudson
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Trammell Hudson. Trammell has some of the most interesting side projects related to every single hardware / software interface you can imagine. Join us as we step into the negative privilege rings with stories of reverse engineering lightbulbs & a Canon 5D Mark 2, hacking a Mac SE, dissecting modchips, evil maid attacks, and more.
You can find Trammell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qrs, his blog at https://trmm.net/, and his GitHub at https://github.com/osresearch.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/
- Intel Paragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon
- OSF/1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1
- Intel i860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860
- Intel Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
- Red Storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_(computing)
- RISC architecture is going to change everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0&feature=emb_title
- Message passing interface (MPI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
- System management mode (SMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode
- Modchips of the State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA
- Modchips: https://trmm.net/modchips
- Bloomberg Supermicro story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
- SPI flash reader: https://trmm.net/SPI_flash
- spispy flash emulator: https://github.com/osresearch/spisp https://trmm.net/Spispy
- ChromeOS firmware: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/firmware/+/e295ff701af589df9eae9f4549792700c4cbe1f3/README.md https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM): https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/work-groups/trusted-platform-module/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
- UEFI "Chain of Trust": https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Forum%20White%20Paper%20-%20Chain%20of%20Trust%20Introduction_Final.pdf
- Evil Maid Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ#Does_anyone_actually_use_evil-maid_attacks.3F
- TPMGenie: https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie
- Google's Titan Chip: https://2018.osfc.io/uploads/talk/paper/7/gsc_copy.pdf https://trmm.net/OSFC_2018_Security_keynote
- Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC): https://osfc.io/
- LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://www.coreboot.org/
- LinuxBoot: https://www.linuxboot.org/
- Open Compute Project (OCP): https://www.opencompute.org/
- Bunnie's Laptop: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686
- Open Titan: https://opentitan.org/
- iCE40 FPGA: http://www.latticesemi.com/iCE40
- iCEBreaker FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
- Project Trellis: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis
- nextpnr: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
- yosys: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys
- UPduino v2.0 FPGA: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v21-low-cost-fpga-board/
- ULX3S FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s
- PiDP-11: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
- PiDP-8: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
- Trammell's PDP-11 prject: https://trmm.net/PDP-11
- Digitized Monkey Brains (PDP-11 post): https://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/
- Model ASR33 Teletype: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype
- All of Trammell's Retrocomputing posts: https://trmm.net/Category:Retrocomputing
- Baud rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud
- Mac SE Easter Egg: https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_Easter_Egg
- Zigbee: https://trmm.net/Ikea https://zigbeealliance.org/
- Magic Lantern firmware: https://trmm.net/Magic_Lantern_firmware
- Home Assistant (Open Source): https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- Node-RED: https://flows.nodered.org/
- MicroPython: https://micropython.org/ https://github.com/micropython/micropython
- Mirai Webcam Vulnerability: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/
- Trammell's research on Bootguard: https://trmm.net/Bootguard
- Rust on the Teensy: https://branan.github.io/teensy/
- Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot https://osfc.io/talks/oreboot
