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01 / IoTAug 09, 2026

Dumping a Bricked CP Plus E31A Camera and Pulling Its Firmware Apart

A practical walkthrough of dumping my own bricked CP Plus E31A IP camera with a CH341A, extracting its SquashFS and JFFS2 partitions, and mapping the boot flow, Tuya storage, and sensitive config areas.

Device: CP Plus E31A
Flash: Winbond 8 MB SPI NOR
Programmer: CH341A with SOIC clip

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02 / SecurityAug 09, 2026

Building Kali NetHunter for the POCO M4 5G Without Guessing

What it took to bring NetHunter to Xiaomi's MediaTek-based POCO M4 5G—from an unsafe first kernel build to working HID and external Wi-Fi.

Device: POCO M4 5G
Kernel: Linux 4.19.191
SoC: MediaTek MT6833, ARM64

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