Hack Correlation

This is a quick update to some projects that I've been working on. My txtr Beagle PC software fork has received an updated version. Changes and tutorial here: https://github.com/ligius-/jbeagle In Germany youtube gets to screw us twice - most music videos cannot be viewed and ads are shown on 90% of the videos. The iOS and Android youtube players cannot skip those ads. Here's my solution to that - buy a TL-WR841N router and give it as a present to some close friend in another country. It's a decent router and my custom firmware adds VPN server support so you can get rid of those pesky ads and private 'law' agencies monitoring* : https://github.com/ligius-/WR841N-VPN Afterwards just set up a normal VPN connection - works with Windows, iOS and Android, out of the box. For Android I recommend VpnROOT instead of the stock feature. *Those so-called agencies are private companies monitoring your traffic for 'illegal' content. They have automated softw...

I've been avoiding to do a write-up on this section for several reasons. First, I'm using the IDA disassembler which is pretty expensive and thus quite extensively pirated. Unfortunately there are no freely available tools that I know of that can perform this task. Second, I really suck at assembler and C so might not be the best person to do these analysis. I've used the freely available Thumb decompiler plugin which is able to translate assembly into readable code but only in about 30% of the cases. There's no substitute for knowledge, it seems. Part 1:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-teardown-part-1.html Part 2:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-two-software.html Part 3:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-3-storage-and-transfer.html Part 4:  http://hackcorellation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-card-parser.html Part 5:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-b...

I started playing around with the SD card contents to see how I can parse it and verify the functionality. The result is a small Java program that is able to read the contents page by page and display it on a little panel. You can type the page number and press <Enter>, you can use arrow keys or mouse wheel to scroll.

I'm wrapping this up for now as one of the COG (chip-on-glass) devices has apparently fried and the reader has sold out. UPDATE : Andreas Schier has written an open-source java toolchain for Beagle:  https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle UPDATE : Florian Echtler has built two Python scripts, one emulating the server and another one for the client. The server allows you to send images to your reader:  http://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/hacking/txtr/ Part 1:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.com/2013/07/txtr-beagle-teardown-part-1.html Part 2:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-two-software.html Part 3:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-3-storage-and-transfer.html Part 4:  http://hackcorellation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-card-parser.html Part 5:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-native-code-analysis.html I've scratched some of the white glue-like ...

Bluetooth Thanks to Moritz I was able to connect to txtr via the Bluetooth SPP profile. To do this you need to disable the txtr app that is installed on your phone and install any app that does Bluetooth serial debugging. I used "Bluetooth SPP", available freely on the Play Store. UPDATE : Andreas Schier has written an open-source java toolchain for Beagle:  https://github.com/schierla/jbeagle My own version:  https://github.com/ligius-/jbeagle UPDATE : Florian Echtler has built two Python scripts, one emulating the server and another one for the client. The server allows you to send images to your reader: http://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/hacking/txtr/ Part 1:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-teardown-part-1.html Part 2:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-two-software.html Part 3:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-3-storage-and-transfer.html Part 4:  http://hack...

As you might now the txtr Beagle is the new kid on the block: the cheapest and lightest ebook reader around. Or at least that's what the marketing says. I bought mine for around 20E, which is quite a bit more than the 10-13 EUR they were aiming for. I guess that's the price one must pay to stay on top of technology. The main reason I bought one was to have some kind of remote display for use for example as a wall clock, To-Do board or bike GPS readout. Video: http://youtu.be/KTEGRSdxxxg Part 1:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-teardown-part-1.html Part 2:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-two-software.html Part 3:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-part-3-storage-and-transfer.html Part 4:  http://hackcorellation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-card-parser.html Part 5:  http://hackcorrelation.blogspot.de/2013/07/txtr-beagle-native-code-analysis.html It's a bit hard to take ap...