Roald Nefs

Notes, experiments, and write-ups on software engineering, security, AI, platform engineering, and whatever hardware I’ve taken apart lately. Also home to the hands-on workshops that come out of those weekend rabbit holes.

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Hands-on automotive security and hardware hacking sessions for conferences, meetups, and internal training days. From a one-hour talk to a full day in the lab.

Attendees at the Car Hacking Village booth at BSides Luxembourg 2026, with instrument clusters and laptops on a workshop table. A powered Škoda Fabia instrument cluster on a workshop bench beside a laptop running the WebUSB CAN console.
Car Hacking Village at BSides Luxembourg 2026 · Photos: DLH

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Building a Car Hacking Test Bench

Modern cars are computers on wheel, dozens of ECUs, multiple busses, wireless interfaces, and a threat model that keeps expanding. For the past few years I …

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    Building a Car Hacking Test Bench

    Modern cars are computers on wheel, dozens of ECUs, multiple busses, wireless interfaces, and a threat model that keeps expanding. For the past few years I dipped my toes in the automotive security …

    4 min read
  • How to extract an AppImage and add it to the Ubuntu Sidebar

    In this post, we’ll guide you through extracting an AppImage and integrating it into the Ubuntu sidebar for easy access. As an example, we’ll use SavvyCAN, a CANBus reverse engineering …

    2 min read
  • Committing Changes to a Pull Request Branch Created from a Fork

    Sometimes a pull request on GitHub.com needs some work before it can be merged into the project but you don’t want to force the required work on the pull requests original author. You’re …

    1 min read
  • Spoofing Microchips used for Animal Identification

    A microchip implanted under the skin of an animal can be used for identification purposes. The microchips are using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to transmit an unique tag number …

    5 min read
  • How to Automatically Generate Clients for your REST API

    While helping a colleague with adding some code to the bunq Python SDK to allow him to retrieve some additional information from the API (bunq/sdk_python#148), we noticed that the SDK was …

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