This beginners talk is as jargon free as possible and a great introduction to the world inside all those little devices that make up our world. Not every device we have makes it easy to see the software they run. How do you analyze the firmware of a device that does not have a display or even a serial port? Simple - pull the software directly from the flash on the device. A new generation of simple and inexpensive hardware devices make it fast and easy. This talk will introduce just enough of the protocols involved, the devices used to pull a firmware image and the software we use to modify the images and put them back.