Exploiting SD cards
2013-12-29 17:21:59.592076+01 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...