Saturday, August 13, 2016
Not exactly new
Supposedly a scary new hacking method developed by Mossad.
Scary: a hacker who is PHYSICALLY PRESENT can infect your non-Net computer via USB, and insert software that gets the computer to reveal stuff acoustically. The hard disk's writing arm can be controlled, or the cooling fan's speed can be controlled.
Duh.
Of course those things can be used as telegraphs. This has always been obvious. Using 'unexpected' pieces of the computer as acoustic outputs is 60 years old, a favorite playtoy of mainframe engineers in the '50s and micro tinkerers in the '70s. I remember an Engineering Open House at K-State in the '50s where the engineers had used a mainframe's printhead to play music.
What's wrong: If you have PHYSICALLY penetrated a highly secure location, and you're close enough to HEAR those sounds, you can gather the info in easier ways. If you can get your USB into a computer, software on your USB can directly read the computer's memory, much more reliably and speedily than any acoustic trick.
This sounds like a false flag, a published distractor to get the penetratees thinking about a trick you're NOT going to play.
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Graphic sidenote: As usual, I forget how BIG Polistra's head is until I put a realistic figure in the same scene. James's entire head would fit inside one of Polistra's eyeballs.
This sounds like a false flag, a published distractor to get the penetratees thinking about a trick you're NOT going to play.
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Graphic sidenote: As usual, I forget how BIG Polistra's head is until I put a realistic figure in the same scene. James's entire head would fit inside one of Polistra's eyeballs.Labels: Age of Stings
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