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Hacking a weird TV censoring device

2022-11-21

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Here is the complete list of words I extracted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16D8GInFz3gchiAccVIclhMDHxzTxNQVli1lYfrW-m4s/edit#gid=0

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Timestamps:

0:00 - What is the TV Guardian

0:50 - Circuit board analysis

3:15 - Removing and connecting to the ROM

6:10 - Extracting data from the ROM

14:22 - Analyzing the contents of the ROM

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