While serial interfaces and tools to easily make use of them are more widespread than ever. However, with the downfall of the serial modem as a common communication method and the omission of an RS232 serial port from most modern PC designs it is easy to have gotten into the tech industry without ever having touched a simple serial port. This talk is intended to be an intro to dealing with serial and JTAG and now it relates to hardware hacking.
Longtime con goer, first time speaker. Always took things apart as a kid to figure out how they worked and in some cases how to get Linux onto them. Been responsible in many different areas of infosec: datacenter tech, sysadmining, defending systems in a SOC, and now he gets to break them professionally as a pentester. Not to be confused with The Jaku.