PoC or GTFO, Volume 2

PoC or GTFO, Volume 2

by Manul Laphroaig
Released August 2018
Publisher(s): No Starch Press
ISBN: 9781593279349

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Book description

"The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out is a celebrated magazine of reverse engineering, retro-computing, and systems internals. This second collected volume holds all of the articles from releases nine to thirteen.

Learn how to patch the firmware of a handheld amateur radio, then emulate that radio's proprietary audio code under Linux. How to slow the Windows kernel when exploiting a race condition and how to make a PDF file that is also an Android app, an audio file, or a Gameboy speedrun. How to hack a Wacom pen table with voltage glitching, then hack it again by pure software to read RDID tags from its surface. How to disassemble every last byte of an Atari game and how to bypass every classic form of copy protection on Apple ][.

But above all else, beyond the nifty tricks and silly songs, this book exists to remind you what a clever engineer can build from a box of parts with a bit of free time. Not to show you what others have done, but to show you how they did it so that you can do the same."

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 9 Elegies of the Second Crypto War
    1. 9:1 Zen and the Art of PoC
    2. 9:2 From Newton to Turing by Manul Laphroaig
    3. 9:3 Globalstar Satellite Comms
    4. 9:4 Pool Spray Tips
    5. 9:5 2nd Underhanded Crypto
    6. 9:6 Cross-VM Side Channels
    7. 9:7 Antivirus Tumors
    8. 9:8 Brewing TCP/IPA
    9. 9:9 APRS and AX.25 Shenanigans
    10. 9:10 Galaksija
    11. 9:11 Root Rights are a Grrl’s Best Friend
    12. 9:12 What if you could listen to this PDF?
    13. 9:13 Oona’s Puzzle Corner
  8. 10 The Theater of Literate Disassembly
    1. 10:1 Please stand; now, please be seated
    2. 10:2 The Little, Brown Dog
    3. 10:3 Pokémon Plays Twitch
    4. 10:4 This PDF is a Gameboy exploit
    5. 10:5 SWD Marionettes
    6. 10:6 Reversing a Pregnancy Test
    7. 10:7 Apple ][ Copy-Protection Techniques
    8. 10:8 Reverse Engineering the MD380
  9. 11 Welcoming Shores of the Great Unknown
    1. 11:1 All aboard!
    2. 11:2 In Praise of Junk Hacking
    3. 11:3 Star Wars on a Vector Display
    4. 11:4 MBR Nibbles
    5. 11:5 E7 Protection of the Apple ][
    6. 11:6 A Tourist’s Guide to Cortex M
    7. 11:7 Ghetto CFI
    8. 11:8 A Tourist’s Guide to MSP430
    9. 11:9 The Treachery of Files
    10. 11:10 In Memory of Ben Byer
  10. 12 Collecting Bottles of Broken Things
    1. 12:1 Lisez Moi!
    2. 12:2 Surviving the Computation Bomb
    3. 12:3 Z-Wave Carols
    4. 12:4 Comma Chameleon
    5. 12:5 A Crisis of Existential Import
    6. 12:6 Network Job Entries
    7. 12:7 Ирония Судьбы
    8. 12:8 UMPOwn: Ring 3 to Ring 0 in 3 Acts
    9. 12:9 A VIM Execution Engine
    10. 12:10 Doing Right by Neighbor O’Hara
    11. 12:11 Are Androids Polyglots?
    12. Charade des temps modernes
  11. 13 Stones from the Ivory Tower, Only as Ballast
    1. 13:1 Listen up you yokels!
    2. 13:2 Reverse Engineering Star Raiders
    3. 13:3 How Slow Can You Go?
    4. 13:4 A USB Glitching Attack
    5. 13:5 MD380 Firmware in Linux
    6. 13:6 Silliness in Three Acts
    7. 13:7 Reversing LoRa
    8. 13:8 A Sermon on Plumbing, not Popper
    9. 13:9 Where is ShimDBC.exe?
    10. 13:10 A Schizophrenic Ghost
  12. Useful Tables
  13. Index
  14. Colophon

Product information

  • Title: PoC or GTFO, Volume 2
  • Author(s): Manul Laphroaig
  • Release date: August 2018
  • Publisher(s): No Starch Press
  • ISBN: 9781593279349