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

Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by showerst on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:49AM (#12276588)

Awesome!

Could this attack be defeated by pumping white noise into a space, or would it have to be too loud to be practical?

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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by LinuxBender on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:14PM (#12276781)

Perhaps. I would just put the equipment in the "Band Room". i.e. Sound proof, you can't even hear the drummer. Power conditioners will stop most signal leakage. There are no windows in the band room, so LED's aren't an issue.

Not enough? Have folks play heavy metal with 12 4kw amps. Anyone trying to monitor will have their ears bleed.

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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by ktta on Friday August 12, 2016 @02:21PM (#12277679)

Unless the hard drive holds data in the petabyte area, I think it just might be more cost effective today to use SSD. Although the SSD route might exceed the cost for the options you mentioned, SSD has other advantages including being future proof.

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