Con speakers fear the Nerf gun. Overrun your talk time at your peril; Steve will shoot your arse with extreme prejudice until you STFU. We had to find a way to pwn the gun and shoot him back.
That’s when we found the Nerf Terrascout: a remote tank gun controlled over 2.4GHz, with a video feed to the remote, complete with crosshairs.
At first, we thought this would be a trivial job: figure out the RF and take control. It turned in to a mammoth hardware, firmware and RF reversing project.
This puppy is so over-specced it would drive you to tears.
The talk will cover the fails, hair loss and eventual success. There won’t be any smart dildos in it, though some of the techniques used are equally suited to teledildonics exploitation, if that’s your thing.
Reversing RF in a high frequency environment using SDRs is challenging. We’ll discuss how we worked around these issues using hardware reversing skills.
We had to import hardware from China for this project, which we could then programme ourselves using SPI, impersonate the legitimate controller and ‘jack the tank gun.
This talk will of course include a live demonstration of hijacking the tank gun and (possibly) shooting Steve.
