Emerging in 2005 out of the need for a memory card small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, microSD cards have rapidly matured to their current status of global ubiquity and adoption. This years Mobile World Congress marks a significant milestone in their growth, with SanDisk introducing the first 128GB microSD card. That will store […]
SD cards, including tiny microSD and SIM cards, contain a powerful – and hackable – computer system. Are you sure you want to use your cell phone as a credit card?
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross have discovered a way to hack even the small microSD cards that go inside current smartphones and tablets to increase their storage, as well as other flash-based memory solutions, presenting their findings at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3). In a detailed blog post on bunnie:studios, Huang explained how […]
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