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Reverse Engineering a Children's Camera and Making It Run Doom

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A developer reverse-engineered the firmware of a cheap undocumented children's camera (HX3302B SoC) by dumping its flash chip, disassembling it in Ghidra, and using EXIF metadata as a memory-dump channel.

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