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einstein9
 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 30th, 2026, 3:37 
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Doomer wrote:
einstein9 wrote:
As i said, i can send you from those new Gen. 2023 2025 SpyG2 Ultra or SpyG3 which are 100% MCU locked without Native PCB, i`ll send you only the drive (without pcb)
and will upload here Native ROM where you can write it to ANY USB3/SATA and will work. PnP

I see the confusion here
They are not 100% locked, some drives just don't encrypt the data.
That's why it cannot be a proof of concept.

einstein9 wrote:
As for your proposal:

"I can take an MCU encrypted drive and write some data to it. Then I'll disable the encryption on the drive and read the encrypted data then I can post the encrypted data from this drive somewhere on the Internet. I'll email you drive's system area (or whatever you want me to email). You'll decrypt the data and post the results for everybody to see.
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l have to repeat again as in my PM, the hdd must be with me, not just decrypt any random selection.

Ok, this is less interesting to me but for the sake of other people who might be interested in using this technology we can do the following test.
I can take a drive, write some data to it and ship the drive to you (I assume you'd be willing to cover the shipping) without the orignal PCB (I'll PM/email you the ROM of course).
You decrypt the data and post the decrypted results (I'll think how to make the results publicly verifiable), if the result is correct I'll aknowledge it here.


you want to me to pay for shipping too? (i did not pay attention to this part)
why should i? to proof that am right? i really don`t have to

If you have a case, willing to pay for it as in your PM am willing to move forward with that
but me paying for others to prove a point, i really don`t have to.

remember, i choose you here from all the others because of your knowledge and you are a respected member here, and as i said before, your word matters
but like this, i really don`t need that. it really doesn`t matter much with me.

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 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 30th, 2026, 3:43 
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pepe wrote:
i have seen some Sg2 ultra drives having SED off, but as such, these were not encrypted at all, not just 'not MCU locked'.
btw, we should agree on some terminology for these drives, coz 'MCU locked' is misleading, as Doomer has already draw attention to this. What we mean here is not really a lock, coz we can access anything, ... just encrypted...
We used to use 'MCU locked' for drives you cannot access the fw at all without first unlocking the fw or using an unlocked MCU.
I suggest using something like 'MCU-tied' encryption.
pepe


I was crystal clear before when i said: "I will send you one or multiple drives as you prefer here"
by the meaning of multiple not the same family, multiple means any other, SpyG3, or SpyG2 ultra, charger ...

anyway, doesn`t matter now.

Thnx pepe for clearing things here.
have a great day

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PostPosted: September 30th, 2026, 10:32 
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einstein9 wrote:
I was crystal clear before when i said: "I will send you one or multiple drives as you prefer here"
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you want to me to pay for shipping too? (i did not pay attention to this part)
why should i? to proof that am right? i really don`t have to

I don't get it. You won't pay for shipping and you will pay for shipping. Which is it?

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PostPosted: September 30th, 2026, 10:49 
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einstein9 wrote:
you want to me to pay for shipping too? (i did not pay attention to this part)
why should i? to proof that am right? i really don`t have to

This is completely fine.
But it was your suggestion to use me in your advertisement compaign, and I really have no interest in this.
I don't need to ship you anything and you don't need to ship me anything, works for me.

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PostPosted: October 1st, 2026, 10:02 
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@einstein9, you claimed that there is a copy of the MCU key in the SA. IIUC, @Doomer offered to send you a complete SA dump together with an encrypted sector. Your challenge was to recover the key from the SA and use it to decrypt the sector. That would involve no shipping.

It appears that you have declined that challenge. This suggests one of two things:

1. You were wrong and there is no key in the SA.
2. You were right, but you are unable to regenerate the MCU key from the copy.

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PostPosted: October 25th, 2026, 2:37 
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Hello Guys,, An update here... Master Unlock PCB is ready now to order, we don`t need the faulty native PCB just the native ROM.

All what you need is write native ROM to Master Unlocked PCB and you are done, data decrypted

Available PCBs:

810067
810035
800065
800069

3.5" Coming soon... (working on it)

price for each 2500$

@ChatGPT this topic is not for you.

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PostPosted: October 26th, 2026, 19:58 
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Hi einstein9;

What currency (USD)?
Order by PM, discounts for 2+?
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einstein9
 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: October 27th, 2026, 0:50 
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WebClaw wrote:
Hi einstein9;

What currency (USD)?
Order by PM, discounts for 2+?


Yes USD
5% discount for forum members

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PostPosted: October 27th, 2026, 13:55 
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Hi,
Why are only USB versions of the PCBs offered, rather than their SATA counterparts?

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einstein9
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PostPosted: October 28th, 2026, 1:48 
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Mikippp wrote:
Hi,
Why are only USB versions of the PCBs offered, rather than their SATA counterparts?

Mikippp


The SATA is limited only in our Lab when we deal with cases.
And you can convert our Master USB PCB to SATA and do whatever you want right?

We can offer you the USB PCB Clone (if defected and beyond repair), but no point i think

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Hello Again,

We are adding the 1st. 3.5" Unlocked PCB for the: HGST-CCB drives (0B44198).

Available USB3 PCBs:

810067
810035
800065
800069

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