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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

Supplyframe

DEF CON 27: Insecurity of Things

Supplyframe visits DEF CON to discuss hardware security with several … [ continue ]

Ars Technica

Badge life: The story behind DEFCON’s hackable crystal ...

Original DEFCON hackable badge creator Joe “Kingpin” Grand gives Ars … [ continue ]

NXP Semiconductors

Meet Joe Grand aka Kingpin, the Hacker Extraordinaire, at ...

Joe Grand created DEF CON 27’s official attendee badge with NXP’s Near-Field … [ continue ]

MacroFab Engineering Podcast

What You Are Designed To Do – A Joe Grand Manufacturing ...

On this episode, we talk with Joe Grand aka Kingpin … [ continue ]

OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

Joe Grand on Hacking, Badgelife and AltiumLive

Today we have an extra-special guest, Joe Grand of Grand … [ continue ]

Supplyframe

DEF CON 27: Joe 'Kingpin' Grand

We caught up with Joe “Kingpin” Grand to discuss 2019’s … [ continue ]

Hackaday

DEF CON 27: The Badge Talk; or That One Time Joe Grand ...

Joe Grand took the stage to share his story of … [ continue ]

Hackaday

First Look at DEF CON 27 Official Badge; Kingpin is Back!

The first big surprise Vegas had in store for everyone … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...