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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

The Hack

Mais destaques do maior festival hacker da América Latina!

“É muito importante que nós possamos continuar compartilhando o mindset hacker, seja … [ continue ]

Tecmundo

Hackers devem dar voz para protestos contra opressão, diz ...

Talvez você não conheça Joe Grand, mas o apelido Kingpin ecoa … [ continue ]

The Security Ledger Podcast

Joe Grand on Unicorn Spotting and Bloomberg’s Supply ...

Noted hardware enthusiast and hacker Joe Grand told reporters from … [ continue ]

Bloomberg Businessweek

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. ...

“Having a well-done, nation-state-level hardware implant surface would be like … [ continue ]

The New York Times

For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing.

At Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, new … [ continue ]

Motherboard

A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with ...

Grand was tasked with designing the first ever electronic badge, … [ continue ]

Engadget

LED signs could soon hide secret messages

Hacker Joe Grand has an idea about how to share … [ continue ]

Attify Webinar

Hardware Hacking with Joe Grand a.k.a. KINGPIN!

Aditya Gupta from Attify talks to the popular hardware hacker … [ continue ]

Press

Hackaday

Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote And ...

Hamish & Andy

Episode 161

Business Insider

I'm a hacker who helps people ...