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RESEARCH LESSONS FROM HARDWARE HACKING.

The article focuses on computer hardware hacking and the methods and rationales for this practice. A computer hardware hacker operates in a mode that is the opposite of an academic researcher, the author argues. The author focuses on the hacking work of Andrew Huang while he was a Ph.D. candidate...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 44 - 50
Main Author: Grand, Joe
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2006
Subjects:
Reverse engineering
Computer hackers
Computer security
Huang, Andrew
Video game equipment
Microsoft Corp.
Xbox video game consoles
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Equipment & supplies
Education
Massachusetts
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on computer hardware hacking and the methods and rationales for this practice. A computer hardware hacker operates in a mode that is the opposite of an academic researcher, the author argues. The author focuses on the hacking work of Andrew Huang while he was a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Huang worked on taking apart the hardware of Microsoft's original Xbox game device in 2001. His work identified potential security vulnerabilities of the device and gave Microsoft insight into what computer hackers may choose to do with such devices.