This class explores defeating advanced hardware protections, such as kill switches that disable devices upon tampering. Students learn how to identify these mechanisms and bypass them using UART, MITM, and glitching techniques. The instructor demonstrates real-world scenarios where kill switches were overcome to maintain system access. This class ties together all prior lessons pin identification, sniffing, reversing, MITM, and fault injection into a comprehensive exploitation strategy.

Learning Objective
Develop methods to bypass kill-switch protections through UART exploitation.

Training Outcomes

• Identify kill switch mechanisms.

• Apply Fault injection UART-based bypass techniques.

• Understand risks of tampering with destructive defenses.

Hands-On Experience

• Trigger and observe kill switches.

• Use fault injector and UART to override or disable protections.

• Document bypass results in test scenarios.