Breaking Silicon: Hacking Chips & Finding Backdoors with Olivier Thomas

How do you hack a chip? What secrets hide inside modern silicon? In this episode of The Jhacker Show, Aseem Jakhar sits down with Olivier Thomas, one of the world’s best chip hackers, to explore IC reverse engineering, privilege escalation, and the reality of hardware backdoors.

🔹 How attackers extract secrets from chips
🔹 Tools & techniques for invasive hardware hacking
🔹 Real-world cases of reverse engineering & IP theft
🔹 The growing threat of supply chain attacks

From microscopes and focused ion beams to glitching and firmware extraction, this episode is a deep dive into the hidden world of chip security.