Semi-Automatic Hacking of Masked ROM Code From Microscopic Images

An anonymous reader writes "Decapping chips and recovering code or data is nothing new, but the old problem of recovering Masked ROM through visual inspection (binary '0' and '1' can be distinguished within the images) is normally done by crowd sourcing a manual typing effort. Now a tool that semi-automates this process and then recovers the data automatically has been released."

A better method: captcha

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Just split the ROM mask image into subimages, and ask engineers to decode a piece of the embedded code to access pr0n sites, and you will get the job done in a few minutes.