---
title: "JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi - Introducing the PiFex"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/jtag-hacking-with-a-raspberry-pi---introducing-the-pifex-hrloetuc6
source_url: https://voidstarsec.com/blog/jtag-pifex
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-06T16:58:11.668Z
updated: 2026-03-15T06:30:20.807Z
tags: ["hardware", "raspberry-pi"]
reading_time: 20
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi - Introducing the PiFex

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 20 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post introduces the PiFex, a companion board for the Raspberry Pi that simplifies hardware hacking and embedded protocols. It explains the hardware and software features of the PiFex and demonstrates how it can be used to access the JTAG TAP on an undocumented SSD. The post also discusses the use of OpenOCD and GDB for JTAG analysis and memory reading.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://voidstarsec.com/blog/jtag-pifex>

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