GoodFET on OS X Installation

WARNING: This worked for me. I make no promises it’ll work for you. I basically have no idea what I’m doing.

So, long story short, I’m very new to hardware and hardware hacking. Like, happy-when-I-don’t-burn-myself-soldering new. I recently took Joe Grand’s Hardware hacking Training (http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/hardware-hacking-training/) at HushCon15 and fell in love.

I, somehow, convinced work to buy me a bunch of toys. Included in that set of toys was a GoodFET board (http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/, https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodfet). As with most things in infosec, there wasn’t much hand holding in terms of installation and getting things going (due in part to the fact that GoodFET is basically dead with development of GreatFET (https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/greatfet)).

I installed on OS X 10.10.5. While basic instructions were provided in several places, they were basic and each differed slightly from the other. After a little trial and error, this is what I ended up with. Read More …