The Software-Defined Car

Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car.

For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and so on. Now engineers and …

June 5, 2023
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Open Source Self Destructing USB Drive Update + AMA

Hey! I make 100% open source security and hacking hardware. Ovrdrive, the self destructing USB drive, has an update!

If a journalist is picked up by the police in a dangerous country with an encrypted drive, they may be forced to unencrypt their media. It would be better to have a blank or broken drive, this is what Ovrdrive can achieve. If the drive is plugged in normally, it will self destruct, but if the user plugs it in three times rapidly it will present it’s data. Security through obscurity.

Hope you like it, and feel free to post questions here! 🙂

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More work: I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger

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June 5, 2023
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