Router of Darkness, Techniques for Embedded System Hacking

The embedded system market is great! They give us the power to make things happen, and give us shiny unicorns. I'm coming at this with the approach of a service provider, producing hardware for end users. The developers, and system engineers seem to think that being a "custom" solution gives them amnesty from security. I will focus on issues that I have identified, and I would recommend for the future of embedded computing for commercial applications. Time permitting (and demo gods) I would love to do a demo of JTAG memory dumping, and show the fun things we can find using IDA Pro.