Looks like she did finally get her code dump, via voltage glitching:<p><a href="https://natashenka.ca/tamagotchi-friends-code-dump/#more-281" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://natashenka.ca/tamagotchi-friends-code-dump/#more-281</a>
Then there is the Tamagotchi Singularity inspired by an XKCD comic [1]. It is a server full of emulated tamagotchis [2] that interact with each other in a simulator, all running code dumped by Natalie's technique. I'm impressed by both these hacks, especially the combination.<p>All this is via a Hackaday article. [3]<p>1. <a href="https://xkcd.com/1546/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xkcd.com/1546/</a><p>2. <a href="https://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity</a><p>3. <a href="https://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix-of-tamagotchis/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix...</a>
I recognized the presenter's name - Natalie Silvanovich - and sure enough, she's a member of Project Zero, and I've read posts by her before. I guess Tamagochis were her gateway drug into reversing!
Nice talk! Travis Goodspeed, who she mentions helped her decapping the chip, has some very interesting reverse engineering talks, e.g. a tear-down of a commercial glucose monitor:<p><a href="https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/glucose-blackalps2019.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/glucose-b...</a>
That was a fun watch, this especially had me in stitches:<p>"All those cool kids going out, going to clubs, they just haven't discovered reverse engineering yet"
As somebody who's terrified of speaking on front of a group, I liked that the presenter is visibly nervous but also having a good time giving her talk. Also, she does a great <i>great</i> job of explaining her steps in a way somebody who has never done any kind of reverse engineering (that would be me) can understand.<p>I watched this one in 2012, although not live. There is a follow-up talk she gave one or two years later, "Many more Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation" that is equally enjoyable.