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Exploiting SD cards

2013-12-29 16:21:59.592076+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Bunnie's Blog: On Hacking MicroSD Cards. SD cards achieve their amazingly low price, cheaper per gigabyte than buying the stand-alone flash, because they do some amazing juggling to manage bad blocks internally.

The embedded microcontroller is typically a heavily modified 8051 or ARM CPU. In modern implementations, the microcontroller will approach 100 MHz performance levels, and also have several hardware accelerators on-die. ...

And, of course, there are ways to upload your own code on to those processors...

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-30 09:20:29.723662+00 by: hananc

Cool!