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user: scarybeast created: 2015-06-24 karma: 1219 The real scarybeasts! submissions: 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope 306 points | 53 comments The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd 339 points | 130 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA 169 points | 39 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987) 34 points | 5 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit 65 points | 11 comments A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data 97 points | 19 comments Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples 2 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz 176 points | 74 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read 91 points | 7 comments *bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images 4 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows 131 points | 35 comments