[agumonkey]

Bunnie Huang could probably do so while watching a GoT episode.

Most programmers today are not electronics saavy, even electricity saavy. But it's not Quantum Mechanics.

[pawadu]

Speaking of Bunnie, his work on xbox was actually pretty similar to this guy (although he did much more than just dumping the ROM):

http://www.xenatera.com/bunnie/proj/anatak/xboxmod.html

[agumonkey]

There was a recent video about him trying to reverse some SoC IIRC, where he would MitM the cpu and sniff protocols and ISA. My memory is blurry, but it was a similar effort than the article here.