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• Security: Recovering "lost" treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope

  There are many good, modern solutions for reading data off old floppy discs and drives. Perhaps the best is the Greaseweazle : it's capable,...

• Security: The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd.

  Introduction I've been on a bit of a floppy disc protection odyssey recently. This will probably be the last floppy disc related post for so...

• Security: 2020

  Hacking everything, by Chris Evans / scarybeasts

• Security: Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit

  Floppy disc copy protection schemes are varied and interesting. It's an interesting intellectual challenge: what schemes can be created wher...

• Security: 2021

  Security Monday, May 17, 2021 There are many good, modern solutions for reading data off old floppy discs and drives. Perhaps the best is the Greaseweazle: it's capable, open source, open hardware, i...

• Security: Ode to the use-after-free: one vulnerable function, a thousand possibilities

  Overview This post explores an old but wonderful vulnerability that enables us to really showcase the (oft underestimated) power of the ...