Riding the Pipe: Hack Wi-Fi and Meshtastic via Browser With Cheap Microcontrollers

Kody Kinzie

With the support of Web Serial on Firefox, modern browsers now almost universally support the ability to flash firmware to cheap microcontrollers and control them directly. This allows microcontrollers to be used as browser-controlled radio pipes to send and receive signals in ways very useful to hackers. Kody will go over examples of hacking Wi-Fi and Meshtastic with bleeding edge techniques, and even creating beautiful visualizations of the invisible wireless world, all using a browser and low-cost microcontrollers.

Saturday 1400 Gramercy Park Suite


Kody Kinzie is a security researcher who specializes in microcontrollers, off-grid mesh networks, and Wi-Fi hacking. He builds beginner-friendly hacker tools and teaches cybersecurity to beginners at hacker conferences around the world. You can find his projects at hack.gay.

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