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iCopy-X · Deep Dive · 12 volumes

iCopy-X

12 volumes covering every LF/HF tag family, all seven operating modes, and the blank-card ecosystem.

Lab401 portable RFID/NFC cloning appliance — push-button replacement for Proxmark3 when the goal is "clone this card to that card, fast."

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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Overview, Decision Graph, How to Read This Series A portable, push-button RFID/NFC cloner with Proxmark3 silicon inside — what it is, how to think about it, and where it fits in the Hack Tools lineup
  2. Vol 2 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Hardware Tour Case, LCD, keypad, antennas, the green PCB, the NanoPi NEO + AT91SAM7S Proxmark3 + Spartan-3 FPGA + STM32F103 stack, microSD, USB-C, battery
  3. Vol 3 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — RFID / NFC Primer: LF and HF Physics, the ISO Standards, Why Some Cards Crack and Others Do Not The technology foundation under every iCopy-X operating mode — the air-interface physics, the standards landscape, and the crypto-strength taxonomy that decides whether the card on the antenna can be cloned, key-recovered, or only UID-mirrored
  4. Vol 4 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — LF Tag Families in Scope Every 125 kHz tag technology the iCopy-X reads, decodes, emulates, and clones — from EM4100 to NexWatch, with the access-control context, the format internals, and the T5577 clone story for each
  5. Vol 5 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — HF Tag Families in Scope, Part 1: the MIFARE Family MIFARE Classic 1K / 4K / Ultralight / NTAG / DESFire / Plus, the Crypto1 break, and the darkside / nested / hardnested key-recovery attacks
  6. Vol 6 iCopy-X Vol 6 — HF tag families, Part 2: iCLASS Legacy / Elite / SE / SEOS, ISO 15693, FeliCa, Legic, and the iCS Decoder The HID family that dominates modern enterprise access control, the ISO 15693 long-tail, FeliCa and Legic, and the €200 accessory that turns iCLASS SE and SEOS from \"unclonable\" into \"three button presses\"
  7. Vol 7 iCopy-X — Operating Modes, Part 1: Auto Copy, Scan Tag, Read LF, Read HF, Sniff Traffic The five field-facing modes you'll spend ninety-five percent of your time inside — what the screen shows, what the silicon is doing, and what to do when it stops
  8. Vol 8 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Operating Modes Part 2: Emulation LF, Emulation HF, Expert / Proxmark Mode, Import / Export Becoming the card, dropping to the underlying Proxmark3 client, and moving keys and dumps between the device and the outside world
  9. Vol 9 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Card stock and the blank-card families: T5577, MIFARE Magic Gen1a / Gen2 / Gen3, iCLASS / SEOS blanks, FUID, and the Lab401 'Genuine' vs AliExpress question The 'what blank do I write to?' decision guide — every blank family the iCopy-X can target, how each one's write mechanism actually works, where Lab401's premium pricing comes from, and the pre-flight pack-list for a real engagement
  10. Vol 10 iCopy-X — Firmware Update Workflow, the Per-Device .ipk Mechanism, and the Partial Open-Source Story How updates are delivered, why each .ipk is bound to a single serial number, the iCopy-X-Community teardown and upstream repos, the Nikola-Lab GitHub organization, the Proxmark3-RRG mainline integration, and what all of this means for the operator who depends on the device
  11. Vol 11 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Side-by-Side Comparisons: PM3 RDV4, Flipper Zero, Cheap Duplicators, Chameleon Family The engineering-detail comparison — what shares silicon, what shares ideas, what shares nothing, and which combinations make sense
  12. Vol 12 iCopy-X / iCopy-XS — Legal, Ethics, Posture, Cheatsheet, Glossary The closeout volume — the legal envelope, the engagement-folder reference, the laminate-ready cheatsheet, and the A-Z glossary for the series