Background
Cody William Brocious was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of a Naval Drug and Alcohol counselor
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Brocious attended Chambersburg Area Senior High School and the Franklin County Career and Technology Center until the age of 17, at which point he decided to enter the work force by joining MP3Tunes in San Diego.
Career
He moved to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania at the age of 3 and became interested in computing by the age of 4. PyMusique
PyMusique allowed Linux users to purchase music from the iTunes music store without the standard FairPlay DRM implementation in place. MP3Tunes
Upon dropping out of High School, Brocious moved to San Diego, California to work at MP3Tunes under the leadership of Michael Robertson.
Cody began work as a contractor on the Oboe project where he implemented a now defunct iTunes plugin for accessing the MP3Tunes Music Locker service.
He was hired as a full-time employee of the company on his 18th birthday. During his employment, he continued his work on Oboe, where he worked on various other interfaces to the Music Locker service.
Falling Leaf Systems
During his employment with MP3Tunes, Brocious also joined forces with Brian Thomason, then an employee of another Michael Robertson company, Linspire Incorporated., to form Falling Leaf Systems Limited Liability Company. Falling Leaf Systems attempted to commercialize the Alky Project, which was started by Brocious to enable Microsoft Windows games to run on other platforms. Falling Leaf Systems sold access to a membership site dubbed the Sapling Program, whereby users could access a build of Alky allowing them to demo the game Prey on either Linux or Mac Operating system X. Despite attempts to expand their stack by also supporting applications on disparate platforms, Falling Leaf Systems officially closed its doors in early 2008. iPhone hacking
Brocious, under the pseudonym Daeken, joined with a group of other hackers to reverse engineer the iPhone, granting users the ability to use their phones in ways not intended by Apple.
Using code developed by this project, George Hotz gained notoriety by performing the first successful hardware unlocking of a standard iPhone.
Emokit
In 2010, Brocious reverse-engineered the protocol used by the Emotiv EPOC Electroencephalogram headset, publishing the Advanced Encryption Standard key used for encrypting the sensor data. The Hardware Hacker Manifesto
The Hardware Hacker Manifesto was published on 21 September 2010. lieutenant gives some insight of the psychology of hardware hackers.
Cody Brocious goes into an explanation of why it is important for owners to have the right to utilize hardware the way they wish to use lieutenant
Onity lock systems
At the 2012 Black Hat Briefings, Brocious presented several vulnerabilities about the Onity HT lock system, a lock used by the majority of United States. hotels. The security hole can be exploited using about United States$50 worth of hardware, and it potentially affects millions of hotel rooms.
The device was eventually optimized down to the size of a marker, and was eventually used to perform burglaries. Onity has started rolling out safeguards for the problem in late 2012, which was considered a slow reaction.
However, in 2013 it was still reported that some hotels continued to have the vulnerability exploited.
