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Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by treebeard901 on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:37PM (#12276961)
All of this equipment needs power so that could be another attack vector. For example, we already have powerline networking. In theory you could include something like that in a power supply, after all it does connect to the motherboard and expansion cards. Of course it would require collusion among many different companies but it may not be out of the realm of a nation state attack.
Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by SEJeff on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:57PM (#12277504)
No it wouldn't, it would just require intercepting the computer / parts en-route:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...

Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by reitanqild on Friday August 12, 2016 @02:17PM (#12277641)
I remember reading about this.

You are right. But to our defense: at this point we are again beyond the passive eavesdropping scenario I think we discussed above.

When you own the networking gear it is more or less game over for the victim anyway, isn't it?

Re:Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers v... by reitanqild on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:48PM (#12277029)
Agree. Then again a lot of power goes into such sites, often in redundant setups so actually exfiltating anything that way sounds like nation state level for me as well.