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Hacking air-gapped computers through heat transfer

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Ben Gurion University in Israel have shown that it’s possible to rig up two-way communication with an air-gapped computer via heat exchange.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/201870-bitwhisper-stealing-data-from-non-networked-computers-using-heat

 

Now you can show your wife why you need to switch to phase change.

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Wow!

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dayum.....

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Cool but impractical.

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Man all this hacking news and it gets more and more ridiculous.

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that's like the best thing I've heard since a long time it's so cool to see how much things can be stretch to acquire data

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Cool but 8bits per hour. Are you fucking kidding me

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I am seriously impressed

 

but at 8 bits per hour and the slightest change in ambient temperature being the Achilles heel I think we are safe

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Cool but 8bits per hour. Are you fucking kidding me

To put that into perspective for some people. It would take you longer than 24 hours to obtain a single Facebook status update.  :lol:

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Wow, amazing this works. Love it! 

Bleigh!  Ever hear of AC series? 

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Israel :x .. so cool

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To put that into perspective for some people. It would take you longer than 24 hours to obtain a single Facebook status update.  :lol:

 One ASCII character per hour :)

 

You're talking a week for a small ASCII art file.

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 One ASCII character per hour :)

 

You're talking a week for a small ASCII art file.

Three weeks for a very basic shopping list.  ^_^

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At 8 Bits an hour.....

SYN 5

SYN-ACK 6

ACK 7

Alrighty lets send the password.

Wait what What do you mean a month has passed!?

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Easy to fool. Put a heater between both PCs that turns itself on and off in a random pattern. Or move them far enough apart.

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Ben Gurion University in Israel have shown that it’s possible to rig up two-way communication with an air-gapped computer via heat exchange.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/201870-bitwhisper-stealing-data-from-non-networked-computers-using-heat

 

Now you can show your wife why you need to switch to phase change.

Yeah but at 8 bits per hour its pretty useless.

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