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Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
Why people recommend it
A DEF CON talk pointed to for what is involved in opening packages and extracting secrets or ROM contents from silicon, and how far such efforts can go.
Watch for: Shows the lengths involved, not a home project
In their words
This Defcon talk is also interesting in terms of people going to absurd lengths to reverse engineer chips, including *visually reading masked ROM from a decapped die* to extract game ROMs...
SomeoneSomewhereSupportsMonica on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jan 2021. CC BY-SA.