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- 2025-08-08 –, D42D Workshop Tent
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How to hack smart energy devices? We’ll let you in on a “secret”, they are not that smart, and hacking them isn’t that hard. In this demo, we are going to get our hands on a smart thermostat and a solar inverter WiFi dongle and explore the chips on them for open debug interfaces.
Then we'll work our way towards dumping anything present in non-volatile memory. Afterwards, we are going to explore the binary blobs and see where some reverse engineering can get us. This workshop can serve as your intro to hardware hacking. After the showcase, you can even play around on the chips (we'll do our best to make sure nothing fries).
Making the grid smart is part of the solution, but present its owns set of challenges, because by controlling and manipulating a lot of small consumers or producers at the same time, an attacker can still have a large effect on the grid.
DIVD currently has a research project (https://www.divd.nl/energie/) devoted to this and Hamza and Alexandros are researchers in this project.