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Re:Letting Bird’s scooters fly free by StrLght on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:11AM (#21342819)
I don't have any experience regarding hardware reverse engineering and the only thing I didn't get from the article is how do people obtain original firmware in the first place? Do they physically disassemble a scooter to access the control board?
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Re:Letting Bird’s scooters fly free by saagarjha on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:31AM (#21342891)
> Hooking this up via an STLink and using OpenOCD allows dumping of the firmware from both chips, which is where the fun begins.

In this case, it seems so.

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