Environmently friendly reverse engineering
When I moved to my new apartment I discovered a lot of old, mostly networking-related, equipment that I was meaning to either sell or throw out, but I never got to it. Recently I also bought an Arduino and decided to learn something about a lower level of reverse engineering (e.g. the CTF binaries from RHme 2 ). This two things combined mean it's time for some router reverse engineering! A word of warning: before I started playing with low level RE I didn't know anything about electronics. If you have some experience with hardware hacking, this post may be a bit too basic. Typing random numbers into a search bar My victim is the Edimax EW-7206APg wireless router. The very first thing to do is to remove the screws and look around the PCB (yes, I know that the lighting is horrible). As you can see there's a huge chip in the middle of the board and some additional smaller ones to the left and next to the Ethernet port. They all have markings, so obviously my first i...