77 points | by HeliumHydride 3 days ago ago
13 comments
my prediction before reading is that they're using the piezo sparker to beat the DUT over the head with a big EMF spike
Edit: Nailed it!
I thought they were going to just heat a chip to increase the overall error rate
Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.
Uh... yeah.
Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password.
Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.
Like the classic xkcd on security
https://xkcd.com/538/
> Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research.
Yes. We do this in Australia, around the bars and pubs getting a root with only a cigarette lighter is a classic move.
I feel like getting root privileges means something else in Australia.
Still only a third of the full wombat trifecta.
also free arcade credits :}
Yeah but can you light a cigarette with only a laptop? Checkmate atheists! /s
If it's intel, you can fry an egg for sure.
The ol' Black MacBook Cooktop...
my prediction before reading is that they're using the piezo sparker to beat the DUT over the head with a big EMF spike
Edit: Nailed it!
I thought they were going to just heat a chip to increase the overall error rate
Be it eletric or thermal, i came here for fried hardware and left disappointed. Now i have to wrangle my curiosity to what happens when you lighter-spark a usb port for the rest of the day.
Uh... yeah.
Just hold the sysadmins hand over the lighter until they tell you the password.
Never forget the easy way in ... the humans.
Like the classic xkcd on security
https://xkcd.com/538/
> Finally, I'd like to thank JEDEC for paywalling all of the specification documents that were relevant to conducting this research.
Yes. We do this in Australia, around the bars and pubs getting a root with only a cigarette lighter is a classic move.
I feel like getting root privileges means something else in Australia.
Still only a third of the full wombat trifecta.
also free arcade credits :}
Yeah but can you light a cigarette with only a laptop? Checkmate atheists! /s
If it's intel, you can fry an egg for sure.
The ol' Black MacBook Cooktop...