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How a Hacker Convinced Motorola to Send Him Source Code

submitted by C-note

5 years 4 months ago

3 Comments

bobknight33

says...

*promote

This guy was the real deal back in the day.

siftbot

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 7:56am PST - promote requested by bobknight33.

AeroMechanical says...

Motorola used Linux company-wide for firmware development in 1992? That's not impossible, but seems pretty unlikely. Of course, "Linux" might just be laymen for "a Unix."

I don't disbelieve the story, since his primary thing was social engineering, but I don't know if I buy the "I was going to hack the firmware on my phone to fool the feds" angle. He would need their tool chain to build it and then a way to get the modified firmware on the phone. Back then a commercially available handset was probably not field programmable. I don't know that he's been connected to any particular technical hacking achievements.

I think his stories need to be taken with a grain of salt. Plenty of truth, but also exaggeration and self-promotion.