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NoboruWataya · a year ago

Great idea, and it's definitely an area I am becoming more interested in as a hobbyist.

Not to be that guy, but I always think it's a shame to see an open source community centre itself around a Discord server.

hw-f3nter · a year ago

Thank you for your feedback! The Discord server serves as a platform for feedback and discussions about hardware hacking and HardBreak. Do you have any suggestions for alternative ways to offer these features?

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amatecha · a year ago

A minor nitpick, but it would be great if you put a description of the site in the meta/og description[0] so people get an explanation of what the site is when linking elsewhere, e.g. the same "This page is a free and open-source wiki about hardware hacking!" as is on the page itself. I just linked the site in Slack and it just says "hardbreak.wiki / Welcome to HardBreak | Hardbreak" which is pretty terse. I imagine there might be some setting in your wiki software that might populate these tags automatically (moreso than they already have), with any luck!

[0] https://ogp.me/

hw-f3nter · a year ago

You are right! I encountered the same problem. Unfortunately, I didn't find a setting in Gitbook to change the preview text, just the preview image. It seems like it just takes the name of the first page 'Welcome to HardBreak' and adds the site name 'HardBreak' at the end. So I'd have to change the name of the first page, but a name like 'HardBreak - a Hardware Hacking Wiki' or something similar would look weird on the website, I think. I haven't found a good solution for that yet.

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rubslopes · a year ago

Please remember to write "Show HN:" when submitting your own content.

hw-f3nter · a year ago

I was thinking about it, but the Guidelines include this:

>Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

so I made a regular submission, as I think HardBreak is reading material. @Mods feel free to move my post, if this is considered a Show HN post.

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abetusk · a year ago

Unfortunately not Open Source, in the common definition of the word.

From the license.md [0] page, under "Terms":

> Exemptions: Commercial Use: For inquiries regarding commercial use, please contact the author.

[0] https://github.com/f3nter/HardBreak/blob/fd3d2d4cd17624a3f62...

hw-f3nter · a year ago

I just don't want anyone to copy the content and sell it. It's meant to be freely accessible to everyone.

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palata · a year ago

Hmm. Parrot has had SDKs for their drones years (at least 5) before 2018. Maybe it happened during the few months between the moment they shipped the Anafi and the moment they shipped the corresponding SDK, then.

But anyway, for educational purposes it's interesting to reverse engineer anything you want!

hw-f3nter · a year ago

I think I searched for the corresponding SDK back then, but couldn't find anything. Maybe I was just too stupid haha

Yeah I learned a lot doing it!

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palata · a year ago

I am confused... isn't Parrot's ground SDK open source? https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/groundsdk-android

Why reverse it?

hw-f3nter · a year ago

For context, this drone was reversed back in 2018 as part of my bachelor thesis. At the time, the SDK hadn’t been released yet I believe, so reversing was the only available option. Recently, I revisited this work and decided to include it on my new hardware hacking wiki - HardBreak.

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hw-f3nter · a year ago

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on HardBreak (https://www.hardbreak.wiki/), an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki that aims to gather all the essential knowledge for hardware hackers in one place. Whether you’re a beginner or more advanced, I hope you’ll find it useful!

Here’s what’s already in: -Methodology (How to approach a hw hacking project) -Basics (common protocols,tools) -Reconnaissance (Board Analysis) -Interface Interaction (How to find, connect to, and exploit UART, JTAG, SPI, etc.) -Bypassing Security Measures (An introduction to voltage glitching techniques) -Hands-On Examples ---Case study on hacking an Asus router (led to a CVE update) ---Reversing drone communication (land it with your PC) -Network Analysis and Radio Hacking (in progress)

If you’re curious, check it out at hardbreak.wiki! Feedback is very appriciated —this is my first project like this, and I’m always looking to improve it. If you’re feeling generous, contributions over Github (https://github.com/f3nter/HardBreak) are more than welcome—there’s way more to cover than I can manage alone (wish I had more free time, haha). Thanks for reading, and happy hacking!