Teardown Session 12: security, pentesting and hardware hacking with Joe Fitz

Опубликовано: 12 Июнь 2026
на канале: Crowd Supply
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Join Helen and this week's guest, security educator Joe Fitzpatrick, as they talk about hardware security and hardware hacking. Along the way, we get an in-depth look at his Tigard hardware hacking tool. We also get a look at Joe's bench and his very extensive collection of conference badges. There's also a very early sneak peak at a new FPGA-based project Joe and collaborator Piotr Esden are working on.

*Playlist*

00:43 Crowd Supply news update
3:23 Introducing Joe FitzPatrick
6:50 The Tigard board, from its handmade beginnings
17:06 Tigard's role in retooling for pandemic online education
23:14 Why does Joe use open source tools for teaching?
26:30 Shout out to Piotr Esden and BitMagic
29:30 Hardware hacking and gaming consoles
33:14 Audience Question: Will you use Tigard in your upcoming training on a Raspberry PI target?
35:03 Prize drawing!
39:40 Securing and hacking PCIe hardware
42:10 How did Joe build his extensive community?
47:12 Audience Question: Can Joe comment on the Spectre chip security vulnerability?
52:33 A look at Joe's collection of conference badges
56:40 About the Hardware Hacking Handbook

*Links & Resources*

Tigard: https://www.crowdsupply.com/securingh...
iCEBreaker: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquar...
Tigard repo: https://github.com/tigard-tools/tigard
Tigard Tools repo: https://github.com/tigard-tools/xiaomao
Joe FitzPatrick: https://learn.securinghardware.com/
The Hardware Hacker's Handbook: https://www.powells.com/book/hardware...
Bsides Portland: https://bsidespdx.org/
Teardown Sessions home page: https://www.crowdsupply.com/crowd-sup...

Twitter: @helenleigh, @crowd_supply, @securelyfitz

*About this week's guest*

Joe FitzPatrick (@securelyfitz) is an Instructor and Researcher at SecuringHardware.com. Joe started his career working on low-level silicon debug, security validation, and penetration testing of CPUS, SOCs, and microcontroller. He has spent the past decade developing and leading hardware security-related training, instructing hundreds of security researchers, pen-testers, hardware validators worldwide. When not teaching classes on applied physical attacks, Joe is busy developing new course content or working on contributions to the NSA Playset and other misdirected hardware projects, which he regularly presents at all sorts of fun conferences.

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