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Yifan Lu

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108 from 5 Oct 2008 to 17 Jun 2022
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quiet since 2022
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2022 1

  1. Unbricking SHIELD TV (2015) with a Bootrom Exploit

2019 6

  1. Glitching a $20k Piece of History
  2. Attacking Hardware AES with DFA
  3. wrote a paper
  4. The First F00D Exploit
  5. Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching
  6. here is a preprint of a paper I wrote on glitching the PS Vita as well as a simple model for reasoning about voltage glitches at a low level

2017 6

  1. Vita HDMI Mod (Attempt)
  2. Foobar, Blossoms, and Isomorphism
  3. psvsd: Custom Vita microSD card adapter
  4. HENkaku Ensō bootloader hack for Vita
  5. Modem Cloning for Fun (but NOT for profit!)
  6. psvimgtools: Decrypt Vita Backups

2016 14

  1. State of the Vita 2016
  2. Designing taiHEN: A CFW Framework
  3. taiHEN: CFW Framework for PS Vita
  4. HENkaku KOTH Solved
  5. Array Shuffling with Additive Generators
  6. Please don’t let Trump win
  7. Yes, it’s a kernel exploit!
  8. HENkaku Update
  9. Welcome Jekyll!
  10. HENkaku KOTH Challenge
  11. HENkaku: Vita homebrew for everyone
  12. The 3DS Cryptosystem
  13. 3DS Code Injection through “Loader”
  14. Cosmo3DS: The CFW nobody wanted

2015 16

  1. CGEN for IDA Pro
  2. Rejuvenate for Unity (and VitaTV support)
  3. On the future of Rejuvenate
  4. Hacking the PS Vita
  5. Rejuvenate Public Beta Release
  6. How To Register and Download for PSM (Shutdown Bypass)
  7. Rejuvenate: Native homebrew for PSVita
  8. Secure your eMMC devices!
  9. Calling all coders: We need you to help create an open Vita SDK!
  10. You Should Register for PSM
  11. Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)
  12. Nintendo 3DS System Updater
  13. Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel
  14. Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel
  15. Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 2)
  16. Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 1)

2014 4

  1. PS Vita 3.30 Filesystem Listing
  2. How to Disassemble Vita Game Cartridges
  3. Dumping the Vita NAND
  4. PS Vita NAND Pinout (Updated)

2013 8

  1. Updates on the Vita Hardware Hacking project
  2. Random observations on Vita logic board
  3. PS Vita NAND Pinout
  4. Removing the CPU and NAND from PSVita
  5. Unlimited Backgrounding on iOS
  6. I need your help to fund Vita hardware analysis
  7. Why hacking the Vita is hard (or: a history of first hacks)
  8. libVitaMTP & OpenCMA: Vita content management on Linux (and more)

2012 8

  1. Huawei E587 (T-Mobile 4G Sonic Hotspot): Information and rooting
  2. PlayStation Vita: the progress and the plan
  3. Playstation Vita progress report
  4. [April Fools] Electronic Arts Inc. announces the closing of Yifan Lu
  5. [April Fools] Yifan Lu has been acquired by Electronic Arts Inc.
  6. Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study
  7. Playstation Vita’s USB MTP Connection Analyzed
  8. Welcome to the new yifan.lu!

2011 21

  1. Kindle Touch (5.0) Jailbreak/Root and SSH
  2. Reversing the Xperia Play emulator (part deux)
  3. Analyzing Kindle 4.0
  4. Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview (8102) on a USB Drive (Windows To Go/Portable Workspace)
  5. Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak (Update)
  6. PSXperia: Converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play
  7. Reverse engineering a dynamic library on the Xperia Play
  8. Analyzing the PSX emulator on the Xperia Play
  9. One more thing: custom recovery kernel for Kindle 3
  10. And now for something different…
  11. Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak
  12. Kindle 3.X updater for Kindle 2 and Kindle DX released
  13. Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 3 – Update packaging script
  14. Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 - Update encryption
  15. Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2
  16. Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist
  17. Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak
  18. Creating a PSP FreeCheat Memory Patch
  19. Ajax Word Search Solver
  20. Welcome to yifan.lu!
  21. Update: T-Mobile Proxy released: Free unlimited EDGE internet without any plans (for now)

2010 16

  1. New Year: Domain garage sell!
  2. Free 3G/EDGE internet on any T-Mobile phone without a data plan
  3. New projects and new ads
  4. OSX FaceTime auto-accept script
  5. PS3 update link finder site
  6. JoshPong: A Pong game in Windows Console written in Java
  7. Load Creative Zen V Plus’s firmware on your Zen V
  8. Compiling the Linux kernel for Amazon Kindle
  9. ASCIIMan: A Windows Console platformer game written in Java
  10. Josh 1.0 Released
  11. Recode of Josh
  12. Update to TweetBot
  13. Update Foursquare from Twitter
  14. Google Apps User Registration Script
  15. Site Updates + iPhone Support
  16. Making a Facebook app…

2009 6

  1. First beta of Josh released
  2. Project Josh announced!
  3. Goodbye Habbo!
  4. My first iPhone app (kind-of)
  5. What I’m working on
  6. IPA Manager, HoloCMS updated

2008 2

  1. Winter Break brings updates!
  2. Welcome to the new www.yifanlu.com!