Greybeard Whitehat

I've been a happy user of the Bus Pirate for several years now - it's perfect for probing circuits to get at TTL level UARTs, sniffing SPI and I2C, generic JTAG, and other shenanigans.  From a hardware/firmware developer use case, it's great to be able to sniff bus traffic during debug.  From a red team standpoint, I've used it to extract and modify the contents of serial EEPROMs and serial flash chips - good clean fun :) I noticed that there's a new version of the hardware finally available, so of course I immediately ordered one.  It arrived this morning and I spent a couple of hours playing with it. Ordering and Shipping It can be ordered from Dirty PCBs  (link at end of blog).  I already had a Dirty PCB account from some projects a few years back - they do a pretty good job of cheaply producing PCBs if you don't mind waiting a bit to get them.  Ordering was straight forward; the only thing I noted was that it would be shipped after February 19th due to ...