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@sonhouse saidNobody wants to steal your data from your crappy computers much less in the dumbest possible way that you’ve outlined below.
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-cyberattack-cooling-fan-vibrations.html
If it wasn't bad enough before, now we have this new way to steal data from comps.
I envision a sad collection of early 80’s pornography and some pIcs of alluring Boy Scouts is all they’ll get. Oh, that and some bad folk music.
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@sonhouse saidGet a decent computer with a solid state drive and feel the freedom blow through your soul like puff of digitised unicorn fart.
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-cyberattack-cooling-fan-vibrations.html
If it wasn't bad enough before, now we have this new way to steal data from comps.
@sonhouse saidlol
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-cyberattack-cooling-fan-vibrations.html
If it wasn't bad enough before, now we have this new way to steal data from comps.
i was the guy that told the israelies about this
personally i beat the odds of being hacked this way by leaving a running vibrator right next to the box
simple
25 Apr 20
@divegeester saidI fail to see how having a SSD would protect you from this.
Get a decent computer with a solid state drive and feel the freedom blow through your soul like puff of digitised unicorn fart.
But the whole thing seems far-fetched because you would need BOTH a) an infected computer and b) an infected smartphone within range.
25 Apr 20
@suzianne saidI am with Suzy here. If I can infect an air gapped computer with a software that "morses" data I can surely get teh data far faster by the same channel by which I infect the computer.
I fail to see how having a SSD would protect you from this.
But the whole thing seems far-fetched because you would need BOTH a) an infected computer and b) an infected smartphone within range.
It is possible for sure, but just imagine how long you need for a fan to establish the new vibrational mode. My guess is at least a tenth of a second, so you can "tap out" at a speed of 10 bits/sec which is much lower than my old acoustic coupler from the 80's...
If you jaust want to tap out a password, ok, but meaningful data??? How long can an unidentified smartphone lay aorund an air gapped computer?
25 Apr 20
@Hand-of-Hecate
Yep, that's all I have, thousands of porno shots of Hand of Hacate gotten off his comp by sneaking my cell phone into his house.
25 Apr 20
@sonhouse saidDo you show them at parties to give everyone a good laugh? 😉
@Hand-of-Hecate
Yep, that's all I have, thousands of porno shots of Hand of Hacate gotten off his comp by sneaking my cell phone into his house.
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