Everything about Hacking of consumer electronics
Customization of devices beyond what is normally possible
The hacking of consumer electronics is a common practice that users perform to customize and modify their devices beyond what is typically possible. This activity has a long history, dating from the days of early computer, programming, and electronics hobbyists.A notable case of the hacking of consumer electronics is jailbreaking of iOS devices or the rooting of Android phones, although many other electronics such as video game consoles are regularly hacked. While these methods allow unrestricted modification of an existing operating system installation, some third-party operating systems have been developed as a replacement to a device's default OS, such as Replicant and postmarketOS on cellphones, or DD-WRT and tomato on routers. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Hacking of consumer electronicsA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Digital planetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Rooting (Android)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Custom firmwareA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
- No matching papers found.
đź“š Books worth reading
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
Crimes of the InternetFrank Schmalleger · 2008
Ethics and electronic information · 2002
The Blockchain RevolutionDon Tapscott, Alex Tapscott · 2016
Communications security sourcebook · 2003
Computer Security SourcebookWilma R. Caldwell · 2003
Privacy rights in the Digital AgeChristopher Anglim, Jane E. Kirtley · 2015
Internet censorshipBernadette H. Schell · 2014
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
- Rooting (Android) Rooting is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually…
- Custom firmware Custom firmware, often referred to as aftermarket firmware, constitutes unofficial, third-party modifications to the original firmware embedded in devices…
- List of open-source mobile phones This is a list of mobile phones with open-source operating systems. Some hardware components used in phones require drivers (or firmware) to run. For many…
- Bootloader unlocking Bootloader unlocking is the process of disabling the bootloader security that enforces secure boot during the boot procedure. It can allow advanced customizatio…
- Boot ROM Boot ROM is a piece of read-only memory (ROM) that is used for booting a computer system. It contains instructions that are run after the CPU is reset…
- Brick (electronics) A brick (or bricked device) is an electronic device, specially consumer electronics (such as a mobile device, game console, computer, etc.) that is no…
- HTC Dream The HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1 in the United States and parts of Europe, and as the Era G1 in Poland) is a smartphone developed by HTC. First…
- Jailbreak (computer science) In computer security, jailbreaking is defined as the act of removing limitations that a vendor attempted to hard-code or hard-wire into its hardware and/or…