iPod hacking via the clicky sound.

topic posted Tue, April 5, 2005 - 1:27 PM by  Elliot
Okay, this is old (March '05) but it's about the guys behind Linux on iPod -- apparently they hijacked the scroll wheel clicker and got it to play out the iPod's bootloader code as a series of clicks. They recorded the clicks, and then wrote a decoder to reassemble the sounds back into code on a PC (no word on if it was Mac, Windows or Linux box).

www.newscientist.com/article.ns
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Elliot
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