Episode 252: Colin O’Flynn On Hacking An Oven To Make It Stop Lying

This podcast transcript recounts researcher Colin O'Flynn's investigation of a Samsung electric oven that reported incorrect temperatures: he reverse-engineered the appliance's legacy microcontroller, used side-channel techniques to bypass firmware read protections, extracted the binary firmware, applied minimal binary patches to improve temperature reporting and control, and frames the work in a broader discussion of right-to-repair, DMCA-driven software locks, product lifecycle, and the need for more transparent, maintainable firmware for consumer devices.