presentation – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:41:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png presentation – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 DEF CON Talk on Getting Started in IoT Hacking https://setsideb.com/getting-started-in-iot-hacking/ https://setsideb.com/getting-started-in-iot-hacking/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=12630 Continue reading "DEF CON Talk on Getting Started in IoT Hacking"]]> We’re mostly games here at Set Side B, the whole “retro, niche and indie” thing ya kno, but what is a game really? This is to say, we’re not against linking to other kinds of computer, and even electronic, entertainment. That’s the excuse reason I give for doing posts on old websites sometimes, and new sites done in the OldWeb style.

And that’s also the excuse I’m using for this one, which is about as far afield as you can get concerning computer “entertainment”: learning how to hack devices like smart cameras and routers.

This video, a presentation given by Andrew Bellini on this subject given at DEF CON 32 (54 minutes), is an inspiring pep talk that makes me want to go out and find some old device, rip its PCB out of its case, fin some likely unpopulated UART points, attach them into a USB plug and plug that into a computer, and snoop on the output messages that come in over the line. At least it makes me want to try such a thing; could you be the same? Whether I’d get any further than that seems unlikely, but it’d be nice to give it a shot.

It seems entertaining to me. That’s an advantage of posting daily: tomorrow there’ll be something else, and practically speaking, you’ll probably find it much more entertaining to you.

]]> https://setsideb.com/getting-started-in-iot-hacking/feed/ 0 My Talk on Mystery Dungeon for Roguelike Celebration https://setsideb.com/my-talk-on-mystery-dungeon-for-roguelike-celebration/ https://setsideb.com/my-talk-on-mystery-dungeon-for-roguelike-celebration/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=8534 Continue reading "My Talk on Mystery Dungeon for Roguelike Celebration"]]> They haven’t broken the talks apart into individual videos yet, but in the meantime you can see my presentation overview of the 31, give or take a couple depending on precise definition, games in the Mystery Dungeon series here, queued up to the proper starting point in the 8+ hour video. The talk portion is about half an hour long (with a couple of interruptions due to the router I was on being a bit flaky).

Here’s an embed, but note that WordPress doesn’t seem to accept the link for embedding with the time code linking directly to my talk, so you’ll have to skip ahead yourself to 6:10:18 to get to it. Or you could watch some of the other very interesting talks on the way there! Either way!

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