Your Fuji digital camera is hackable
There was a time when a digital camera was a surprisingly simple affair whose on-board processor didn't have much intelligence beyond what was needed to grab an image from the sensor and compress it to storage. But as they gained in functionality, cameras over time acquired all the trappings of a full-fledged computer, including full operating systems and the hacking possibilities that come with them. /p>
Fuji is one of the leading camera manufacturers, whose cameras offer plenty of opportunities for hacking. There's something of a community about them, with all of their work appearing in a GitHub repository, and a cracking April Fool's joke in which a Fuji camera looks like it could be persuaded to run DOOM.
Fuji cameras run the ThreadX real-time operating system on a variety of ARM SoCs, with an SQLite data store for camera settings and Fuji's own software controlling the camera's hardware camera. Hacking involves updating firmware patches, and in addition to manipulating the built-in scripting language and accessing the SQLite database, it can include code execution. We really want the DOOM to be real! So far there's no access to the camera hardware, but that's not quite the point of the hacking exercise.
Don't have a Fuji? These aren't the only hackable cameras to be found.
There was a time when a digital camera was a surprisingly simple affair whose on-board processor didn't have much intelligence beyond what was needed to grab an image from the sensor and compress it to storage. But as they gained in functionality, cameras over time acquired all the trappings of a full-fledged computer, including full operating systems and the hacking possibilities that come with them. /p>
Fuji is one of the leading camera manufacturers, whose cameras offer plenty of opportunities for hacking. There's something of a community about them, with all of their work appearing in a GitHub repository, and a cracking April Fool's joke in which a Fuji camera looks like it could be persuaded to run DOOM.
Fuji cameras run the ThreadX real-time operating system on a variety of ARM SoCs, with an SQLite data store for camera settings and Fuji's own software controlling the camera's hardware camera. Hacking involves updating firmware patches, and in addition to manipulating the built-in scripting language and accessing the SQLite database, it can include code execution. We really want the DOOM to be real! So far there's no access to the camera hardware, but that's not quite the point of the hacking exercise.
Don't have a Fuji? These aren't the only hackable cameras to be found.
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