[omegacharlie]

> Cui’s 2012 demo of FRAK raised some hackles because the concept included tailored firmware unpackers for specific vendors’ products. Today, Ofrak is simply a general tool that doesn’t wade into potential trade secrets or intellectual property concerns

Excuse me? Firmware unpacking is an 'intellectual property' concern? Assuming said unpackers were not developed under contract from the original vendor with 'no redistribution' clause or involved publication of information under NDA independent reverse-engineering and publication of work is theoretically ok.

However considering its origin of being sponsored by a company the use of private information not cleared for public distribution obtained by agreement is a possibility.

As an aside: Anyone have success emulating embedded devices of which the kernel or user-land may communicate with arbitrary peripherals not otherwise emulated?