O&o Bluecon 23 -

Felix froze. That was his own voice. From a webinar he’d given in 2014. A webinar that was never recorded. He raised his hand. “This isn’t a real drive.”

He bypassed the controller using a direct-to-NAND reader he’d built from a Raspberry Pi Pico and salvaged DDR3 RAM. The O&O BlueCon engineers watched him from a glass booth, sipping espresso. o&o bluecon 23

Two hours in, he reconstructed the FTL (Flash Translation Layer) manually—a feat no one had done since 2019. The room got quiet. A Spectre from Taiwan stopped her own work to watch. Felix froze