Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2022 3:30 PM EDT
Hackaday.com; By Dave Rowntree
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Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a tiny hole in the armour, giving you an way in. And, sometimes the door is just plain wide open. This detailed exploration of an off-the-shelf retro arcade machine, is definitely in that second camp, for an unknown reason. [Matthew Alt] of VoidStar Security, took a detailed look into how this unit works, which reads as a great introduction to how embedded Linux is constructed on these minimal systems.

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