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Hardware Hacking: What is it?

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The hardware hacker , often called with a touch of romanticism "hacker" is in collective imagination, a pimply and sickly being who maintains an almost symbiotic relationship with his computer and leads onto the canvas a lawless existence. Although it is probably possible to find specimens that corroborate the stereotype, the world of hacking is complex, it has its own codes and contains within it a variety of trends and behaviors. However, what all hackers have in common is their love of tinkering and it is not limited to playing with lines of code. Unknown to the general public, hardware hacking is to divert it from its primary function of electronic equipment. The hardware is the physical electronic medium, which allows to operate the software. Practicing hardware hacking thus requires a screwdriver and soldering irons as much as a computer keyboard. It is important to understand that the "hacking part" is simply to divert the subject to use any other way o