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Joe Grand Writes Foreword for The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Tuesday, Nov 16th, 2021

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has contributed the foreword for The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks. Written by Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O’Flynn, the book explores the designs of embedded systems and the techniques required for executing effective hardware attacks. Through the foreword, Joe … [ continue ]

Joe Grand Writes Foreword for Manual PCB-RE: The Essentials

Saturday, Aug 14th, 2021

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has contributed the foreword for Manual PCB-RE: The Essentials. Written by Keng Tiong Ng, the book follows the process of reverse engineering a real-world, complex printed circuit board from start to finish. Through the foreword, Joe provides encouragement to readers as they begin … [ continue ]

DEFCON 27 Badge Turned Into Social Distancing Reminder

Monday, Sep 14th, 2020

Grand Idea Studio has created a social distancing reminder using the DEFCON 27 Badge. In 2019, the badge was the official attendee badge for DEFCON, the world’s largest and oldest continuously running hacker conference. It served as a game for attendees to play during the event and interacted with … [ continue ]

Altium Stories Features Joe Grand

Thursday, Feb 6th, 2020

Altium Stories, created by global engineering software company Altium, is a YouTube series that highlights today’s innovators and designers. Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio is featured in an episode entitled “Confessions of a Hacker known as Kingpin,” which explores his relationship with hacking, technology, engineering, and … [ continue ]

In Support of Right to Repair

Monday, Feb 11th, 2019

Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio has written a public letter in support of Right to Repair. Right to Repair is a grassroots effort to fight against the closed, monopolized repair tactics of many modern technology vendors and to raise bipartisan awareness of the need for consumers to … [ continue ]

Press

Crowd Supply Blog

A chat with Joe Grand

If you’ve ever seen Prototype This! on Discovery Channel, or … [ continue ]

MAKE Magazine

A Decade in the Making

Debuting in February of 2005, Make: posited the idea that … [ continue ]

Security Weekly

L0pht Heavy Industries Panel

L0pht Heavy Industries was a hacker collective active between 1992 … [ continue ]

Hackaday

Kids Explore Engineering with Cartoon Tech Build

What can a Daddy really do in this situation? In … [ continue ]

Threatpost

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker ...

One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry … [ continue ]

The Washington Post

A Disaster Foretold - And Ignored

The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill’s … [ continue ]

Bill Martinez Live

Passenger Hacking Into a Plane

Joe Grand joins us to discuss the claims of a hacker … [ continue ]

Gizmodo

Somebody Found the Most Appropriate Use For the Nintendo ...

Remember the Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s early, failed foray into virtual … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...