In our pilot episode, Avast CISO Jaya Baloo asks hacker extraordinaire Joe FitzPatrick about his earliest “Aha!” moments
We are very excited to share Episode 1 of our brand new series, Avast Hacker Archives, or AHA for short. Hosted by Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, the series showcases those valuable “Aha!” moments achieved by white hat hackers and researchers that changed the course of our digital world. We’ll not only dig into the history and significant moments of our technological age, but also shine a light on the positive side of hacking – it’s not all cyberattacks and selfish motives.
We’re kicking it off with our special guest Joe FitzPatrick, the Hardware Security Trainer and Researcher at SecuringHardware.com. Educated as an electric engineer, Joe has spent over a decade working on silicon debugging, security validation, and penetration testing of CPU systems on chips and microcontrollers. He has worked at Intel, and he has trained hundreds of budding hackers and researchers. In his spare time, he contributes to the NSA playset.
In our episode, Joe recollects about the first hack he ever presented at a conference. It was a Nikon D800 camera. The high-end apparatus used a very expensive proprietary Wi-Fi adaptor, and Joe didn’t understand why a generic $50 adaptor, at a tenth the cost, shouldn’t work just as effectively. Applying some electrical engineering skill and technical know-how, Joe hacked the device and made the cheaper adaptor work like a charm on it.
Aside from leading Joe down the road to many more camera hacks, this also led him to a passionate new hobby – armchair hacking (his term). Joe says that armc ..
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