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Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse Engineering
Dissecting and symbol-mapping a camera firmware to get around WiFi hotspot mis-detection
Now that we have the function names in place, we need to manually set the type of quite a few DAT_ fields to "pointer", rename the parameters according to the debug string, and we get a reasonably usable decompiler output. To pass the hotspot check, we must unwind ten years of HTTPS-everywhere, or point the DNS record to a different server that will either HTTP-redirect to a different, more yahooey name, or set a cookie on the yahoo domain. The resulting patch was tiny, but guessing the workaround just from the packet traces was impossible due to the "detection method" implemented by Samsung's engineers.
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