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2022
Unbricking SHIELD TV (2015) with a Bootrom Exploit
2019
Glitching a $20k Piece of History
Attacking Hardware AES with DFA
The First F00D Exploit
Injecting Software Vulnerabilities with Voltage Glitching
2017
Vita HDMI Mod (Attempt)
Foobar, Blossoms, and Isomorphism
psvsd: Custom Vita microSD card adapter
HENkaku Ensō bootloader hack for Vita
Modem Cloning for Fun (but NOT for profit!)
psvimgtools: Decrypt Vita Backups
2016
State of the Vita 2016
Designing taiHEN: A CFW Framework
taiHEN: CFW Framework for PS Vita
HENkaku KOTH Solved
Array Shuffling with Additive Generators
Please don’t let Trump win
Yes, it’s a kernel exploit!
HENkaku Update
Welcome Jekyll!
HENkaku KOTH Challenge
HENkaku: Vita homebrew for everyone
The 3DS Cryptosystem
Cosmo3DS: The CFW nobody wanted
3DS Code Injection through “Loader”
2015
CGEN for IDA Pro
Rejuvenate for Unity (and VitaTV support)
On the future of Rejuvenate
Hacking the PS Vita
Rejuvenate Public Beta Release
How To Register and Download for PSM (Shutdown Bypass)
Rejuvenate: Native homebrew for PSVita
Secure your eMMC devices!
Calling all coders: We need you to help create an open Vita SDK!
You Should Register for PSM
Opening Up CARDBOARD: Crafting an American New 3DS (non-XL)
Nintendo 3DS System Updater
Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 3: Owning ARM9 Kernel
Reversing Gateway Ultra Stage 2: Owning ARM11 Kernel
Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 2)
Reversing Gateway Ultra First Stage (Part 1)
2014
PS Vita 3.30 Filesystem Listing
How to Disassemble Vita Game Cartridges
Dumping the Vita NAND
PS Vita NAND Pinout (Updated)
2013
Updates on the Vita Hardware Hacking project
Random observations on Vita logic board
PS Vita NAND Pinout
Removing the CPU and NAND from PSVita
Unlimited Backgrounding on iOS
I need your help to fund Vita hardware analysis
Why hacking the Vita is hard (or: a history of first hacks)
libVitaMTP & OpenCMA: Vita content management on Linux (and more)
2012
Huawei E587 (T-Mobile 4G Sonic Hotspot): Information and rooting
PlayStation Vita: the progress and the plan
Playstation Vita progress report
[April Fools] Yifan Lu has been acquired by Electronic Arts Inc.
[April Fools] Electronic Arts Inc. announces the closing of Yifan Lu
Unlocking T-Mobile 4G Hotspot (ZTE MF61): A case study
Playstation Vita’s USB MTP Connection Analyzed
Welcome to the new yifan.lu!
2011
Kindle Touch (5.0) Jailbreak/Root and SSH
Reversing the Xperia Play emulator (part deux)
Analyzing Kindle 4.0
Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview (8102) on a USB Drive (Windows To Go/Portable Workspace)
Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak (Update)
PSXperia: Converts any PSX game to work on Xperia Play
Reverse engineering a dynamic library on the Xperia Play
Analyzing the PSX emulator on the Xperia Play
One more thing: custom recovery kernel for Kindle 3
And now for something different…
Kindle 3.2.1 Jailbreak
Kindle 3.X updater for Kindle 2 and Kindle DX released
Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 3 – Update packaging script
Recovering a formatted or corrupt Kindle 2
Porting Kindle 3.1: Part 2 - Update encryption
Quickguide: Bypassing Lenovo S10 BIOS Whitelist
Kindle 3.1 Jailbreak
Creating a PSP FreeCheat Memory Patch
Ajax Word Search Solver
Welcome to yifan.lu!
Update: T-Mobile Proxy released: Free unlimited EDGE internet without any plans (for now)
2010
New Year: Domain garage sell!
Free 3G/EDGE internet on any T-Mobile phone without a data plan
New projects and new ads
OSX FaceTime auto-accept script
PS3 update link finder site
JoshPong: A Pong game in Windows Console written in Java
Load Creative Zen V Plus’s firmware on your Zen V
Compiling the Linux kernel for Amazon Kindle
ASCIIMan: A Windows Console platformer game written in Java
Josh 1.0 Released
Recode of Josh
Update to TweetBot
Update Foursquare from Twitter
Google Apps User Registration Script
Site Updates + iPhone Support
Making a Facebook app…
2009
First beta of Josh released
Project Josh announced!
Goodbye Habbo!
My first iPhone app (kind-of)
What I’m working on
IPA Manager, HoloCMS updated
2008
Winter Break brings updates!
Welcome to the new www.yifanlu.com!