Gene Erik
Gene Erik is a hacker with many variety interests spanning the gamut of hacking topic, including wireless networking, software defined radio, embedded device hacking, phone phreaking, application security, social engineering, and much more. Gene Erik is a hacker with many variety interests spanning the gamut of hacking topic, including wireless networking, software defined radio, embedded device hacking, phone phreaking, application security, social engineering, and much more. Gene's major passion is taking those hacking concepts, distilling them down, and weaponizing them through automation and tool creation. In the real world, Gene has had experience at companies big and small doing stuff all over the IT professional space: software development; technical support; desktop support; dev(sec)ops (system administration and hardening, orchestration, vulnerability management, cloud achitecture and migration, and the software development that goes with it); network engineering; data center and storage architecture; PBX design and management; AppSec; and much more. Gene is a long time toorcon attendee with a passion for breaking (and fixing) things.
Sessions
Discussing the interesting things in pre-boot stages of systems, especially SoCs. Cool stuff and tools, places to "hook", and why adding a resistor in the right place can drop the system to "debug" mode.
For the demo, we will take a loot at a modern arm based platform and an x86/64 platform that are easy to recover from if broken. We'll build some firmware, learning the tools, break a device, recover it, look at debug points. Attendees will probably need/want some VU meters, FTDI/TTL connectors, power strips, and something raspbery-pi like to follow along.