Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
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The author recounts reviving the 2002 T-Mobile Sidekick, whose cloud-dependent Danger OS died in 2011, by recovering a developer signing key. Working from a 512-bit certificate found in archived firmware, they factored it with CADO-NFS across roughly 220 cores in about 8.5 hours, then signed their own developer key.