I have a Native Instruments Maschine Mikro (pictured below): The box itself and the software that come with it are great but I’ve always felt like I could use it for more than just music. In this post, I will be describing how I reverse engineered the Native Instruments interprocess…

This post is the third part of my series about tracking skips in the Spotify client. This post is a direct continuation of my work on the MacOS client first detailed here: https://medium.com/@lerner98/skiptracing-reversing-spotify-app-3a6df367287d. Hardcoding Addresses In the previous article, I hooked the target functions using HookCase to track when the skip subprocedure…

This is a sequel to my previous post about tracking skips in the Spotify MacOS desktop client: https://medium.com/@lerner98/skiptracing-reversing-spotify-app-3a6df367287d. In this post, I will do the same for the Spotify iOS application using some new techniques. Let’s get to it. Step Zero: Jailbreak Basically any iOS reverse engineering requires a jailbreak. This is because…

I have one of those personal projects that I just can’t finish. I think most software developers can relate to this. You have some awesome idea but due to work and other responsibilities, it ends up being forgotten about or buried under other tasks. Now this isn’t a success story…

I’ve recently been playing around with an Arduino Uno and I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned. Introduction I’ve been interested for a while in getting into hardware but I never really got around to it. A few weeks ago, I…

EDIT: It seems like people are continuing to stumble across this. I just want to say that this article and the accompanying code (which I don’t maintain) have lots of mistakes and you should not consider this a super reliable resource. …