Last week I had pleasure of attending FSec 2014, annual security conference. Just like last year, I had hardware presentation, this time about reverse engineering NComputing CPLD dongle. You can find it on http://bit.ly/fsec2014-jtag or embedded below.
I had great time at conference, but I'm somewhat wondering did audience got something from my lecture. It was very interesting for me to figure out JTAG pinout on this board, and connect it to various JTAG programmers (all with their's good and bad sides) and I noticed that there are not any introductory text on the web how to approach this problem for the first time. So, I decided to present this topic in hope that this will motivate other people to take a hack at some board which would otherwise end up on e-waste of even worse, land-fill. And, who can resist call of free hardware which you can re-purpose? :-)