Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast
Episodes
077 - The Beatbox Diversion
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro catch up on 2025. Here are some links to the things we talked about: Wing - Dopamine Enshittification California Right to Repair ...
076 - Living In A Vast World of Craziness
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An Interview With Dan Walters Dan Walters/Bytetinker joins us after a long email chain to find a time. You'll understand why it was so hard ...
075 - Teleporting All Over The Timeline
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We talked to Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and how it became the DeskThing. You can find Nathan on his personal site and on LinkedIn. You ...
074 - This Coconut Won't Open
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro talked to Noah Holland & Joshua Stiebel about electronic lock reverse engineering. Here are links to some of the things we talked about...
073 - REPP.show
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro were guests on the Reverse Engineering Plus Plus Podcast. Check them out at REPP.show!
072 - EOF?
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are some of the things we talked about: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-around-objects/overview/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_...
071 - Snerd Niped
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Roth (aka Stacksmashing) joined us again to chat about all the new projects he's been working on. We talked about iPhone and Macbook reversing,...
070 - I Have a DediProblem
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talked to Jesse Michael (@jessemichael) and Mickey Shkatov(@hackingthings) about BIOS/UEFI reverse engineering and more! Here's a list of some ...
069 - Canned Cheese and Onion Rings
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian from DangerousPrototypes (@DangerousProto) joined us to chat about the new BusPirate 5, DirtyPCB's, and more! Check out this BusPirate 5 post for...
068 - The Monkey Button
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talked to Laurie Wired (X/Twitter, YouTube, Github) about malware reverse engineering, making youtube videos, and more! Check out her excellent ser...
067 - I Don't Know What I'm Doing
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro briefly chat with Jacob Creedon outside a restaurant. Sorry for the terrible sound quality 😅! We'll try to get back on track this ye...
066 - Use Your Scope!
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reverse Engineering the MegaII with James Lewis. James (https://www.baldengineer.com/) joined Jen and Alvaro to chat about MegaII reverse engineering....
065 - Multitalented Grinch
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No guest this time! Jen and Alvaro catch up 😀 NOTE: Alvaro will be at CCCamp in a few weeks https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/infos/ Episode 03...
064 - MS-DOS Malware Chose Me
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Nika/ic3qu33n about 16-bit MS-DOS malware reverse engineering! You can find Nika in the following places: https://ic3qu33n.f...
063 - I Read Online That It's Impossible
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Thomas Roth (@ghidraninja on Twitter) about Airtag reverse engineering, debugging iPhones, and GameBoy RE! You can also find ...
062 - Keymap Rain Dance
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David from Cyber City Circuits (@MakeAugusta) joined us to chat about reverse engineering, manufacturing, escape rooms, and more! Here are links to so...
061 - A Case of the Sniffles
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Note: We have 5 year anniversary T-Shirts available for sale. Order is open until Nov 28. We chatted with Sultan Qasim Khan (github) about BLE reverse...
060 - The Brie List
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat about the last 5 years! Don't forget to get past guest @TubeTimeUS's new book Open Circuits over at https://nostarch.com/open-circ...
059 - Instant Nerd Snipe
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Ryan (bluetooth.expert) joins us once again to talk SDR's, bluetooth, and more! If you need some consulting help, you can find him at ice9.us. He...
058 - Technically Met the Specs
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Special thanks to Andrea of Hardwear.io team for inviting us. We learned a ton and meet a bunch of new people while (as of this writing) stayed COVID-...
057 - I Did Not Expect Sharks!
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Ossmann (@michaelossmann) from Great Scott Gadgets joined us to chat all things SDR, Open Source Hardware, education, and more! Here are links...
056 - Listening to Jupiter
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oleg Kutkov (@olegkutkov) joined us from Kyiv to chat about Starlink reverse engineering, astrophysics, and more! Check out his awesome website for so...
055 - Stacks Of Bricked Chips
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Abbott (website, @openlabbott) from Oxide.computer joins us to chat about reverse engineering the LPC55S69, linux kernel development, and more!S...
054 - It's A Calibration, Not An Update!
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Willem Melching(@PD0WM) joins us to chat about reverse engineering cars! We discovered him through his excellent blog. Willem is the head of openpilo...
053 - It's Hammer Time!
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Hash (@bitbangingbytes) about reverse engineering smart power meters! Check out Hash's RECESSIM community as well as their Di...
052 - Twitter Is My Lab Notebook
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with @TubeTimeUS about reverse engineering sound cards, how the MOnSter 6502 came to be, the Snappy Video Snapshot, ethics i...
051 - Collecting Students With Similar Names
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest, Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) is a security researcher at University of Darmstadt (why, yes you can specialize in Security here) and focuses...
050 - Four Years In
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our 50th episode, Jen and Alvaro chat about the podcast and a bunch of other random things. Alvaro's book recommendation: https://thisishowtheytel...
049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security resear...
048 - A Bad Case of Kubernitis
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Manning joined us to talk about containers! Linux Namespaces chroot Docker Kubernetes The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes Hypervis...
047 - The Sun, The Moon, The Stars
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat about what they've been up to and a few interesting RE related reads. Alvaro was a guest in the embedded.fm podcast recently. Jen...
046 - Never Reveal the Prestige
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cam Hackett and Lucien Brulé from Ramagine.com joined us to talk about their process of talking to a lot of security researchers and reverse engine...
045 - Rizin and Cutter
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Florian Märkl (metallic.software) and Itay Cohen (megabeets.net) about the open source reverse engineering tools Rizin and C...
044 - Scots Army Knife
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared joined us to chat about open hardware tools! Check out Glasgow on Crowd Supply! Piotr has previously joined us on...
043 - Filling In Zeros
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest was Dmitry Grinberg who shared his pokewalker project which included a H8 family processor by Renasas. Read his detailed paper for mor...
042 - Diwali in the Morning
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Asmita Jha from Payatu gave an Intro to Firmware Reverse Engineering workshop during Remoticon and we followed up with her to dive deeper. She brough...
041 - What did you fail at this week?
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Samy Kamkar about his new NAT Slipstreaming research and a lot more! Samy is the co-founder of Openpath Security. You can fin...
040 - Uh-tastic
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This show we are going no guest and wanted to chat about the things that are coming up and what we are finding online to enrich our stuck at home live...
039 - Changing the Nature of Reality
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Natalie Silvanovich (http://natashenka.ca/) about Tamagotchis and reverse engineering. Project Zero Tamagotchi Virus Ther...
038 - My Favorite Random Number is 5
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro chat with Colin O'Flynn from NewAE Technology Inc about differential power analysis, fault injection, and more! Thank you again to all ...
037 - 2020 Survey Results
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Ana...
036 - ADDVulcan - Hack-a-sat Part 1
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today's show, we chat with Amie DD and Will C about the Hack-a-sat challenge and team ADDVulcan. For details on the PSA by Rachel Tobac and WISP he...
035 - Giving it all away (Listener Survery)
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we close on the start of our 4th year, we want to check in with you, the audience to find out more about who you are, how we are are doing and what...
034 - Mechanical RE
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Moncur and Brandon Graham from Pipeline Design & Engineering (https://testfixturedesign.com/ and https://designtheproduct.com/) joined us to tal...
033 - All Over the Place
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Machine Learning Class Digital clock project Alvaro's T-shirt Quilt USB-C Power Project StepMania Evil Mad Scientist Labs Ship Anywhere Good Food...
032 - High Molarity Rants
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk with John McMaster about the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup and some of his other projects. MTVRE Patr...
031 - The Title Isn't DibbleDabble
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Year end review of our favorite shows, what happened in the world, and what is next. Jennifer Wang - Harry Potter Talk From Supercon 2018 Frontline ep...
030 - Supercon 2019
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro talked to a few folks at the 2019 Hackaday Superconference! Emily Velasco (@MLE_Online) Death Clock Hackaday Supercon Talk "Why You Sh...
029 - Old Timey Name Droppin'
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We welcomed Philip Freidin this week to the show to talk about his work in FGPAs and what kind of smart or least smart bets to take. We did spend some...
026a Easter Egg Extra
21 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A listener of the show provided the long lost blog for the "leaked" C64. And word on the street is that TiltFive's Kickstarter is coming Tuesday morni...
028 - Everyone Has a Bag of Tricks
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, recorded at CCCamp19, Alvaro chats with Johnny Xmas (@J0hnnyXm4s, github) about reverse engineering TSA keys/locks, web APIs, and m...
027 - The Box
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part episode, Alvaro talks to three contestants of "The Box" contest at DEFCON 27 as well as Datagram, the creator of the contest. Alex, ...
026 - You Can Lose in so Many Colors!
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) joins Jen and Alvaro to talk about her background, past projects, reverse engineering, and her company Tilt Five. Jer...
025 - Opaque Magisterium
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro chats with Kate Temkin and Mikaela Szekely from GreatScottGadgets about USB Reverse engineering. Here are some of the things mentioned: HackRF...
024 - Cars, Servers, and FPGAs!
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Altherr joined Jen and Alvaro to talk about reverse engineering cars, server BMC's, FPGA's, and more! You can find Rick on Mastodon @kc8apf and o...
023 - Magic Moonbeams
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alvaro talks to Major Malfunction at the Hardwear.io conference. Alvaro first saw his Magstripe Madness talk at Defcon 14 (slides). M...
022 - Bits Through the Microscope
30 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In another episode recorded at the Hardwear.io conference, Alvaro talked to Chris Gerlinksy(@akacastor) about ROM extraction and other IC reverse engi...
021 - Silent Disco Wizards
23 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alvaro is joined by Jonathan Brossard to talk about the Witchcraft Compiler Collection during the Hardwear.io conference. We talked a...
020 - Hardwear.io CTF Interviews
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alvaro interviews contestants and organizers of the Hardwear.io CTF challenge First, we're joined by two members of the OpenToAll CTF...
019 - It's Still Not Magic
06 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Holly Graceful (@HollyGraceful, gracefulsecurity.com) joined us to talk about her recent hardware reverse engineering blog series and her...
018 - Ghidra
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Daede joined us after the Mountain View Reverse Engineering Meetup to talk about Ghidra. Ghidra is the NSA's newly-released-to-the-public soft...
017 - Supercon 2018 Part 2
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference! Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment. Sarah Petkus and Mark...
016 - Supercon 2018 Part 1
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jen and Alvaro were at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference! Sorry for the audio quality, we recorded in a fairly loud environment. Chris Svec - http://c...
015 - Updates!
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro was at Toorcamp and DEFCON. Chris from The Amp Hour and Jack from the Darknet Diaries podcast were also there. Jen went to the Vintage Compute...
014 - Ferrycast
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro and Gareth talked to Joe Grand on the ferry back from Toorcamp. Here are links to most of the things we talked about: San Juan Islands Burnin...
013 - It's Not Magic
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro, Gareth and Piotr talked to Schneider about Iridium satellite protocol reverse engineering. (And other fun things) Here are links to most of th...
012 - Cheese vs. SDR
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro and guest co-host Gareth(@gareth__) talked to Jared Boone(@sharebrained) about interactive television, blu-ray authoring, optical media, chee...
011 - Making Too Many Assumptions
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mike Ryan (@mpeg4codec) joins us to talk about how he went from hacking games for stronger characters (we don't reveal which ones; you'll ha...
010 - T0015! Part 0x3 - Debug Interfaces
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about the nebulous world of debugging interfaces, some of their history, and how they can be used in reverse engineering. We cover t...
009 - T0015! Part 0x2: All Ur sigs R belong to uS.
15 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talked about measuring things (Well mostly digital and some analog things)! Digital Multimeter Oscilloscope Passive vs active p...
008 - T0015! Part 0x1
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week are we talking about tools to get you through different situations. Both of share our list of items to tackle a few common situations. By no...
007 - Candy Coated
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
M. Carlton joined us to talk about being part of leading professional reverse engineering team at Senr.io. We discussed her Embedded Systems talk abou...
006 - Marketing Via Stickers
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A quick year end update and feedback show from just the hosts. We cover the Hackaday Superconference where we handed out stickers (track us down to...
005 - Circuits That Go Nowhere
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we were joined by the incredible IC reverse engineer, Ken Shirriff. You may know him from his Hack A Day Super Conference talk in 2016 or hi...
004 - 0x0FF the Rails
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We spoke with Micah Scott (@scanlime), the original inspiration for this podcast. She gave us a rundown of her past and current projects which run the...
003 - Barbies and Keyboards
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk about some current events and some basic reverse engineering projects they've worked on. Some of the topics cover...
002 - Cheap And Easy
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jen and Alvaro chat with Dmitry Grinberg (http://dmitry.gr). Some of the things we talked about: Learning to program at 9 years old,...
001 - Success!
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jen and Alvaro talk about their new, yet to be named, Reverse Engineering Podcast. Some of the links we talked about through the show...