A Nerd's Life: Weeks of Firmware Teardown to Prove We Were Right

Introduction This blog post is a follow-up to our previous post describing how we managed to extract the firmware of a smartwatch. It contains many references and details introduced in our previous post, readers are therefore advised to read it first. Soon after our successful firmware extraction stunt, we started analyzing the recovered binary blob to search for our watch's main application code. It quickly became clear that what initially looked like an easy task would definitely be harder to ...