Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise

Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by cstross on Friday August 12, 2016 @08:35AM (#12275070)

You know where this is going?

iPads. Kept in a Faraday cage and provisioned with apps over a cable from a neutered host (read-only drive, maybe? Anyway: locked down and firewalled to prevent unapproved software updates).

Alternatively: the market for refurbed LSI-11s is booming.

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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by cpach on Friday August 12, 2016 @02:30PM (#12277747)

I don’t get it… What is it about LSI-11 is that makes it useful in this context?

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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by cstross on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:22PM (#12278899)

... It pre-dates TCP/IP (not to mention most of the bells and whistles malware can get its hooks into, not to mention not generally having any audio i/o at all, or a bunch of other surplus doodads people expect these days that expand the threat surface of the machine).

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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by cpach on Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:17PM (#12283141)

Ah, I see :)

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