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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How did it taste? Not terrible! The sputter coater crispied it up after being left out and stale for two weeks vs the others

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I let the intrusive thoughts win. May I present: gold goldfish

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ. See you there!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New lab space! Ignited plasma today towards resuming my "FOSS gold wafer shuttle" project. Stay tuned!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just did a pass resolving misc siliconprawn.org issues (cross domain compatibility, upload limits, etc). Please let me know if you see any issues!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup next Wed Aug 12, 7 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ. See you there!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'll be at Open Sauce tomorrow if you want to say hi! Roaming in the morning and then at SF Microscopy Society booth in the afternoon

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup this Wed, 7:00 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks: - John M on "WiFi Tuning Adventures" (30 min) - Valery R on "Invasive FIB Attacks and Countermeasures in Hardware Security Devices" (30 min)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup this Wed, 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7:00 at wagon wheel bbq. see you soon!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup on Wed at 7:00!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

is this common with jlcpcb machining? Or did I get unlucky (sputter coater targets)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I've (finally) made some SSL changes on siliconprawn.org to fix regressions from the transition to Cloudflare. Let me know if you are still seeing any issues

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight, 7 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! - Mike F on "How n00bs can use AI to become 1337 hackers" (15 min) - Joshua W on "You Probably Should Just Write a Wireshark Dissector (... But Then We All Should Dream Bigger)" (30min)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup Wed April 8, 7 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! - Mike F on "How n00bs can use AI to become 1337 hackers" (15 min) - Joshua W on "You Probably Should Just Write a Wireshark Dissector (... But Then We All Should Dream Bigger)" (30min)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Heading to HARRIS hardware security conference to give a keynote on open source security hardware. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup 7:00 pm tonight at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks: - @tubetime.bsky.social on "HP 16717 PCB Reverse Engineering" (40 min) - @natashenka.bsky.social on "0-click Android exploits" (25 min)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup on Wed! 7:00 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ. Talks: - @tubetime.bsky.social on "HP 16717 PCB Reverse Engineering" (40 min) - @natashenka.bsky.social on "0-click Android exploits" (25 min)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm going to bring the ASML Innovation quest if you want to give it a try!

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7:00 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Social / no talks scheduled

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've been having a lot of DDoS issues with siliconprawn.org recently. Not just me / maybe there is a general rise in DDoS recently?

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup Wed Feb 11th, 7:00 PM at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Social / no talks planned right now

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Its essentially a dirty joke (as in a site hosting risque chip images, but defeating spam filters by saying "pr0n"). Academics didn't like this and I wasn't that tied to the name. So the compromise was something that was pronounced the same but spelled differently

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It was discussed on the discord server for a long time. The short version is that I've worked with more academics the last couple of years who have more traditional values than the more cyberpunk crowd I've traditionally ran with

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I've had to re-enable "under attack" mode for siliconprawn.org as attacks appear to be persisting through cloudflare with it off

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7:00 PM at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks: - Rotem B on "Hacking highly encrypted apps" (20 minutes) - Tom V on “Restoring a DOS based Rohde & Schwarz vector IQ signal generator” (20 minutes)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Talks updated: - Rotem B on "Hacking highly encrypted apps" (20 minutes) - Tom V on “Restoring a DOS based Rohde & Schwarz vector IQ signal generator” (20 minutes)

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup Wed, 7:00 PM at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks: -Rotem Bar on "Hacking highly encrypted apps" (20 minutes) -Second one possibly / TBD

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

siliconprawn.org is experiencing a DDoS. As smaller mitigations have failed, I'm experimenting with putting it behind cloudflare

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johndmcmaster.bsky.social @johndmcmaster.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) white elephant gift exchange tonight! Make your junk^H^H^H^Htreasure someone else's problem. 7:00 PM at Wagon Wheel BBQ

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