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Reverse Engineering Bluetooth Beacons from the Trash

November 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Sorry for the lack of streams lately! Been working on some chaos that has occurred around the house and a few long term projects that I will hopefully be able to share in the coming weeks :)

October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

The government doesn't want you to know this but the BLE beacons at the park are free, you can take them home with you. I have over four hundred and sixty five BLE beacons.

#bluetooth #reverseengineering #coding #python
youtu.be/VOPVNXJKliI

Hardware and Software Analysis #reverseengineering

October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM

Reposted by ReversingForFun

Boatplugs

@shadylink.lol

holy fuck this surveillance alarm clock I bought from the feds is crazy hot on 2.4ghz. The spec sheet says it does 100mW out but my math says it's AT LEAST a 3W transmitter.

I guess when the FCC licensed this thing back in '95 they weren't concerned with jamming wifi...

a screenshot of GQRX 2.4ghz radio spectrum waterfall, there is a huge wall of yellow and red as the device is turned on and it starts drowning my wifi devices.

a top down photo of a splayed open alarm clock on a work bench showing the hidden camera and transmitter along with the decent sized patch antenna.

a scrot of the device spec sheet showing the RF output listed at 100mW but the input voltage is listed 10-13vdc @ 300ma....

a photo of the back of the alarm clock showing a golden FCC sticker with the ID: NH5FWVTXBD12A
underneath that it says tested under part 90 FCC Rules

September 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering, starting in a few minutes! Digging into mitmproxy and frida

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #Ring #IoT

youtube.com/live/DazP72A...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Hardware and Software Analysis #reverseengineering

September 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering! Doing some software and hardware analysis of a Ring camera

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #Ring #IoT

youtube.com/live/ZF-NngN...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Poll from ReversingForFun - YouTube

September 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

I posted a poll looking see where the interest lies in the next piece of hardware I take a look at.

Toss a vote if you wanna see something specific!

So I'm wrapping up the work I've been doing on the DisplayPad hardware and I wanted to throw out a poll to see what people wanted me to work on next. Here's ...

Reverse Engineering: Making USB device drivers for Linux with Python!

September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Okay, I finally learned enough Kdenlive to mash together a more formal video on the general process I took to reverse engineer this device and write my own shitty drivers with python, hope you enjoyyyy :)

#reverseengineering #python #linux

youtu.be/6yd1vC0Turs

Hacking my off-brand streamdeck! #coding #python #reverseengineering

September 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Sorry folks! No streams this week as I'll be out of pocket. Working on a video though so hopefully I can get some time on that while I'm out :)

August 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering in a few minutes (mostly coding python), come on by and check it out!

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #linux #python

youtube.com/live/lzltQK8...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Hacking my off-brand streamdeck: customizing and release

August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering (mostly coding python), come on by and check it out!

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #linux #python

youtube.com/live/whCtOyG...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Hacking my off-brand streamdeck! - Sending Keystrokes

July 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering at the top of the hour, come on by and check it out!

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #linux #python

youtube.com/live/3MM7HVI...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

it doesn't work in linux :( So I'm making some drivers with python, ghidra and wireshark. 0:00 - prestream 10:46 - stream starting 13:43 - recap and context 17:44 - getting started on feature 30:33...

Hacking my off-brand streamdeck!

July 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering in about half an hour, come on by and check it out!

#reverseengineering #hardware #hacking #linux #python

youtube.com/live/Yxtqmyx...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

VOD - Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - CGI bins and scripts

July 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering in about half an hour, come on by and check it out! Today I'll be digging into some unused/hidden CGI binaries, getting dirty with ghidra, and maybe dumping some SPI flash.

youtube.com/live/N6V9Hc4...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - authenticating with python

July 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Just uploaded yesterday's stream where I discovered the problem I was having with the auth flow and then wrote some python to do the challenge+response.

#reverseengineering #hacking #iot #hardware #python #software

youtu.be/ijo2w2nsj88

VOD - Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - GL-Cloud and MQTT

June 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

ughh I keep forgetting to announce when I go live. It's usually friday at 3pmCST but here we go an hour into the stream. Digging into the auth flow a bit more, making some python because it needs it.

#reverseengineering #livestream #hardware #hacking

youtube.com/live/xGM_Ik7...

Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - GL-Cloud and MQTT

June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Here's two more hours of me bumbling around this device learning things and trying stuff. I cut up the VOD and fixed the audio so you can actually hear me when I say stupid things...

#hardware #hacking #reverseengineering #infosec
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1r...

You DON'T want to find THIS in your HOTEL ROOM! #police #surveillance #hidden #camera

www.youtube.com

June 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

I've seen enough clickbait titles to know better ;3

#police #surveillance #hidden #camera

Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - GL-Cloud and MQTT

June 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Currently live streaming some reverse engineering! Come on by and check it out, we're digging into the cloud connectivity of this smart VPN router.

#hacking #iot #infosec #reverseengineering

youtube.com/live/4VYd0fo...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Chillout Teardown: Vizio Blu-ray Player

June 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Ever want to see the inside of a blu-ray player? Well BAM, there it is.

#ASMR #hardware #teardown #youtube #videos

youtu.be/AtsJGeWR0gI

Chillout Teardown: Sony Handycam

June 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Another teardown to chill with. This was a bit longer than others, lots of screws and parts. Could have been longer if I took apart the lens and cassette assemblies...

#hardware #chillout #teardown #sony #handycam

youtu.be/CBs_Rrdks-g

Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - Stage 1

June 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Live streaming some reverse engineering of the GL-iNet smart travel router in about 30 minutes. Today I'll be showing some of the inner workings of the management console along with the OpenWRT ubus system.

#software #hacking #reversing

youtube.com/live/j9DdkYe...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...

Today I'll be going over some things learned about the GL-iNet management interface along with the OpenWRT ubus system

Mystery Device Reverse Engineering: GL-iNet Smart Travel Router - Stage 1

June 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM

ReversingForFun

@reversingforfun.bsky.social

Hardware reverse engineer stream is starting soon

I will attempt to dual stream to both twitch and youtube but I don't have high hopes of that working out... so if all else fails I'll just stick with youtube for now.

youtube.com/live/8shi-yZ...
www.twitch.tv/reversingfor...